Padarthadharmasamgraha and Nyayakandali
by Ganganatha Jha | 1915 | 250,428 words
The English translation of the Padarthadharmasamgraha of Prashastapada including the commentary called the Nyayakandali of Shridhara. Although the Padartha-dharma-sangraha is officially a commentary (bhashya) on the Vaisheshika-Sutra by Kanada, it is presented as an independent work on Vaisesika philosophy: It reorders and combines the original Sut...
Text 13
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 13:
द्रव्यादीनाम् पञ्चानाम् समवायित्वमनेकत्वम् च ॥ १३ ॥
dravyādīnām pañcānām samavāyitvamanekatvam ca || 13 ||
Text (13): To the five, Substance and the rest, belong the characters of inherability and plurality.
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
The author now points out the simlarity among Substance, Quality, Action, Community, or Generality and Individuality.
“Inherabi'lity” i.e. existence in a thing by the relation of inherence.
“Plurality”—the character of being distinct from one another,—that is to say, having forms differentating them from one another.
If the Author had said merely ‘of Substance and the rest,’ it would have included Inherence also; hence he restricts the number to ‘five.’ If he had said only ‘five,’ it would not be clear what particular categories were meant, hence he specifies them as ‘substance and the rest.’
Notes.
That which would be dependent upon some thing else would not be eternal; as to be eternal a thing must be self-sufficient. Hence the character of being dependent upon something else would be common only to noneternal Substances.