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 140
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 140:
तद् विपरीतसम्योगविभागकारणं कर्मापक्षेपणम् ॥ १४० ॥
tad viparītasamyogavibhāgakāraṇaṃ karmāpakṣepaṇam || 140 ||
Text (140): That action which brings about conjunctions and, disjunctions in directions other than those just mentioned, is Throwing Downward.—(I-ii-9).
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
Throwing Downward brings about conjunction with lower things and Disjunction from lower things.