Padarthadharmasamgraha and Nyayakandali
by Ganganatha Jha | 1915 | 250,428 words
The English translation of the Padarthadharmasamgraha of Prashastapada including the commentary called the Nyayakandali of Shridhara. Although the Padartha-dharma-sangraha is officially a commentary (bhashya) on the Vaisheshika-Sutra by Kanada, it is presented as an independent work on Vaisesika philosophy: It reorders and combines the original Sut...
Text 47
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 47:
रूपरसगन्धस्पर्शपरत्वापरत्वगुरुत्वद्रवत्वस्नेहवेगा मूर्तगुणाः ॥ ४७ ॥
rūparasagandhasparśaparatvāparatvagurutvadravatvasnehavegā mūrtaguṇāḥ || 47 ||
Text (47)—Colour, Taste, Smell, Touch, Priority, Posteriority, Gravity, Fluidity and Viscidity, and Speed are qualities that belong to corporeal objects.
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
The author now proceeds to show the similarities and differences among the Qualities themselves. Rūpa &c. These qualities belong only to corporeal objects, and never to incorporeal (or immaterial) objects.
For instance, Colour, Taste, Touch, Priority, Posteriority and Speed belong to Earth, Water and Light; all these except, Colour belong to Air; all save Colour and Touch belong to Mind; Taste and Gravity to Earch and Water; Fluidity to Earth Water and Light; Viscidity to Water; and Odour to Earth.