Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary

by Nandalal Sinha | 1923 | 149,770 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165

The Vaisheshika-sutra 9.2.9, 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 (‘another cause of dreaming and of cognition in dreaming’) contained in Chapter 2—(? Inferential cognition)—of Book IX (of ordinary and transcendental cognition...).

Sūtra 9.2.9 (Another cause of dreaming and of cognition in dreaming)

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of Vaiśeṣika sūtra 9.2.9:

धर्माच्च ॥ ९.२.९ ॥

dharmācca || 9.2.9 ||

dharmāt—from dharma or merit; ca—also.

9. (Dreaming and consciousness accompanying dreaming result) from dharma also.

Commentary: The Upaskāra of Śaṅkara Miśra:

(English rendering of Śaṅkara Miśra’s commentary called Upaskāra from the 15th century)

He adds another cause of dreaming and consciousness accompanying dreaming.

[Read sūtra 9.2.9 above]

The word ‘ca’ is used with the purpose of adding adharma, demerit. This has been already explained.—9.

Commentary: The Vivṛti of Jayanārāyaṇa:

(English extracts of Jayanārāyaṇa Tarkapañcānana’s Vivṛti or ‘gloss’ called the Kaṇādasūtravivṛti from the 17th century)

* * * * Some think that this aphorism has been laid down for the purpose of showing that in some cases dreaming, etc., are also produced from dharma, etc., alone, even without the action of Saṃskāra or impression, and that the poetic observation of Śrīharṣa, that the maid Sleep brings before the vision of man, through the allpervading efficacy of adṛṣṭa, even objects which have not been observed before, accordingly becomes explained.

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