Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary
by Nandalal Sinha | 1923 | 149,770 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165
The Vaisheshika-sutra 7.2.23, 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 3 (‘priority and posteriority do not exist in priority and posteriority’) contained in Chapter 2—Of Number, Separateness, Conjunction, etc.—of Book VII (of the examination of attributes and of combination).
Sūtra 7.2.23 (Priority and Posteriority do not exist in Priority and Posteriority)
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of Vaiśeṣika sūtra 7.2.23:
परत्वापरत्वयोः परत्वापरत्वाभावो ऽणुत्वमहत्त्वाभ्यां व्याख्यातः ॥ ७.२.२३ ॥
paratvāparatvayoḥ paratvāparatvābhāvo 'ṇutvamahattvābhyāṃ vyākhyātaḥ || 7.2.23 ||
paratva-aparatvayoḥ—in priority and posteriority; paratva-aparatva-abhāvaḥ—non-existence of priority and posteriority; aṇutva-mahattvābhyām—by minuteness and magnitude; vyākhyātaḥ—explained.
23. The non-existence of Priority and Posteriority, in Priority and Posteriority, is explained by mintuteness and magnitude.
Commentary: The Upaskāra of Śaṅkara Miśra:
(English rendering of Śaṅkara Miśra’s commentary called Upaskāra from the 15th century)
These aphorisms (i.e., 23, 21, 25), being virtually explained above, are not explained here.—23, 21, 25.
Commentary: The Bhāṣya of Candrakānta:
(English translation of Candrakānta Tarkālaṅkāra’s Bhāṣya called the Vaiśeṣikabhāṣya from the 19th century)
Candrakānta reads VII. ii. 24 and 25 as one aphorism.