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 29
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Text 29:
भूतात्मनां वैशेषिकगुणवत्त्वम् ॥ २८ ॥
bhūtātmanāṃ vaiśeṣikaguṇavattvam || 29 ||
Text (29):—All material substances and the Souls have the character of having specific qualities.
Commentary: The Nyāyakandalī of Śrīdhara.
(English rendering of Śrīdhara’s commentary called Nyāyakandalī or Nyāyakaṇḍalī from the 10th century)
The “material substances” i.e., Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ākāśa, “Specific qualities” are thoss qualities, of colour &c., which tend to specify or distinguish their substrates from other things. Such qualities are present only in the five material substances and in the Souls.