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 131
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 131:
स्नेहो'पां विशेषगुणः । संग्रहमृजादिहेतुः । अस्यापि गुरुत्ववन् नित्यानित्यत्वनिष्पत्तयः ॥ १३१ ॥
sneho'pāṃ viśeṣaguṇaḥ | saṃgrahamṛjādihetuḥ | asyāpi gurutvavan nityānityatvaniṣpattayaḥ || 131 ||
Text (131):—Viscidity is the specific quality of water; it is the cause of cohesion and smoothness. The eternality and evanescence of this also would be in the same manner as those of Gravity.—(II-i-2).
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
By ‘cohesion’ is meant that property wheredy flour and such other things are turned into the form of a lump and ‘smoothness’ is the clearness of the skin of the body, following from a good wash and rubbing; the ‘etc.,’ is added with a view to include ‘softness’ and such other qualities as are due to Viscidity.
Viscidity, like Gravity, in the atoms is eternal, and in the products it is produced from a like quality in the component atoms, and is destroyed by the destruction of the object in which it resides.