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...

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 72:

बुद्धिसुखदुःखेच्छाद्वेषप्रयत्नधर्माधर्मभावनानां निमित्तकारणत्वम् ॥ ७३ ॥

buddhisukhaduḥkhecchādveṣaprayatnadharmādharmabhāvanānāṃ nimittakāraṇatvam || 73 ||

Text (72):—Intellect, Pleasure, Pain, Desire, Aversion, Efort, Virtue, Vice and Faculty have the character of efficient (or instrumental) causes.

Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.

(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)

These can be efficient causes alone, (and not Material or Immaterial causes.)

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