Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary
by Nandalal Sinha | 1923 | 149,770 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165
The Vaisheshika-sutra 7.2.12, 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 (‘actions are void of actions, and attributes, of attributes’) contained in Chapter 2—Of Number, Separateness, Conjunction, etc.—of Book VII (of the examination of attributes and of combination).
Sūtra 7.2.12 (Actions are void of actions, and Attributes, of attributes)
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of Vaiśeṣika sūtra 7.2.12:
कर्मभिः कर्माणि गुणैर्गुणा अणुत्व महत्त्वाभ्यामिति ॥ ७.२.१२ ॥
karmabhiḥ karmāṇi guṇairguṇā aṇutva mahattvābhyāmiti || 7.2.12 ||
karmabhiḥ—by actions; karmāṇi—actions; guṇaiḥ—by attributes; guṇāḥ—attributes; aṇutva-mahattvābhyāṃ—by minuteness and magnitude; iti—this.
12. Actions are (void) of Actions; Attributes are (void) of Attributes. This (is explained) by Minuteness and Magnitude.
Commentary: The Upaskāra of Śaṅkara Miśra:
(English rendering of Śaṅkara Miśra’s commentary called Upaskāra from the 15th century)
This second aphorism has been already explained. (Vide VII. i. 15 supra).
Commentary: The Bhāṣya of Candrakānta:
(English translation of Candrakānta Tarkālaṅkāra’s Bhāṣya called the Vaiśeṣikabhāṣya from the 19th century)
Candrakānta reads VII. ii. 12 as two aphorisms viz., Karmabhirkarmāṇi guṇair-guṇāḥ and Aṇutvamahattvabhyāmiti, and explains them in the same way as VII. i, 16.