Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary
by Nandalal Sinha | 1923 | 149,770 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165
The Vaisheshika-sutra 5.2.22, English translation, including commentaries such as the Upaskara of Shankara Mishra, the Vivriti of Jayanarayana-Tarkapanchanana and the Bhashya of Chandrakanta. The Vaisheshika Sutras teaches the science freedom (moksha-shastra) and the various aspects of the soul (eg., it's nature, suffering and rebirth under the law of karma). This is sutra 2 (‘action, attribute, genus, species, and combination are void of action’) contained in Chapter 2—Of Non-volitional Action—of Book V (of investigation of action).
Sūtra 5.2.22 (Action, Attribute, Genus, Species, and Combination are void of action)
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of Vaiśeṣika sūtra 5.2.22:
एतेन कर्माणि गुणाश्च व्याख्याताः ॥ ५.२.२२ ॥
etena karmāṇi guṇāśca vyākhyātāḥ || 5.2.22 ||
etena—by this; karmāṇi—actions; guṇāḥ—attributes; ca—and; vyākhyātāḥ—explained.
22. By this, Actions and Attributes are explained (as inactive).
Commentary: The Upaskāra of Śaṅkara Miśra:
(English rendering of Śaṅkara Miśra’s commentary called Upaskāra from the 15th century)
He points out the inactivity of actions and attributes:
[Read sūtra 5.2.22 above]
‘Etena’ means by difference from that which possesses activity. Difference from that which possesses activity, in other words, incorporeity or imponderableness, belongs to attribute and action. They are, therefore, explained to be inactive.—22.
Commentary: The Vivṛti of Jayanārāyaṇa:
(English extracts of Jayanārāyaṇa Tarkapañcānana’s Vivṛti or ‘gloss’ called the Kaṇādasūtravivṛti from the 17th century)
The word ‘Ca’ implies Genus, etc.