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 139
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 139:
तत्रोत्क्षेपणं शरीरावयवेषु तत् सम्बद्धेषु च यद् ऊर्ध्वभागिभिः प्रदेशैः सम्योगकारणम् अधोभाग्भिश्च प्रदेशैः विभागकारणं कर्मोत्पद्यते गुरुत्वप्रयत्नसम्योगेभ्यस्तद् उत्क्षेपणम् ॥ १३९ ॥
tatrotkṣepaṇaṃ śarīrāvayaveṣu tat sambaddheṣu ca yad ūrdhvabhāgibhiḥ pradeśaiḥ samyogakāraṇam adhobhāgbhiśca pradeśaiḥ vibhāgakāraṇaṃ karmotpadyate gurutvaprayatnasamyogebhyastad utkṣepaṇam || 139 ||
Text (139): As regards the action of throwing upward, it is that action which brings about the conjunction of the parts of the body and things in contact with these parts, with points of space above them, and also the disjunction of these from those below them; this action is produced by Gravity, Effort and Conjunctions.—(I-ii-7).
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
Throwing upward brings about the conjunction of the hand &c., and the stick held by it, with points of space above them.