Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary
by Nandalal Sinha | 1923 | 149,770 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165
The Vaisheshika-sutra 7.1.19, 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 9 (‘what measure or extension is eternal’) contained in Chapter 1—Of Colour, Taste, Smell, and Touch, and Magnitude—of Book VII (of the examination of attributes and of combination).
Sūtra 7.1.19 (What Measure or Extension is eternal)
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of Vaiśeṣika sūtra 7.1.19:
नित्ये नित्यम् ॥ ७.१.१९ ॥
nitye nityam || 7.1.19 ||
nitye—in the eternal; nityaṃ—eternal.
19. In the eternal, (Measure or Extension also is eternal.
Commentary: The Upaskāra of Śaṅkara Miśra:
(English rendering of Śaṅkara Miśra’s commentary called Upaskāra from the 15th century)
Is then minuteness, inhering in ultimate atoms, destroyed, as are Colour, etc., of terrene ultimate atoms? Is magnitude also, inhering in ether, etc., destroyed, as are Sound, Understanding, etc.? In anticipation of these objections, he says:
[Read sūtra 7.1.19 above]
Measure or Extension which exists in eternal substances, e.g., ether, etc., and also in the ultimate atoms, is eternal since there is nothing to destroy it.—19.