[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana) › [General works and doxographies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all) › [Sarvadarshanasangraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha) › 1.40 # Sarvadarshanasangraha 1.40 Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 1.40 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.40) nāpy anumānaṃ vyāptijñānopāyaḥ/ tatra tatrāpy evam ity anavasthādauḥsthyaprasaṅgāt/ nāpi śabdas tadupāyaḥ/ kāṇādamatānusāreṇānumāna evāntarbhāvāt/ anantarbhāve vā vṛddhavyavahārarūpaliṅgāvagatisāpekṣatayā prāguktadūṣaṇalaṅghanājaṅghālatvāt/ dhūmadhūmadhvajayor avinābhāvo ´stīti vacanamātre manvādivad viśvāsābhāvāc ca/ anupadiṣṭāvinābhāvasya puruṣasyārthāntaradarśanenārthāntarānumityabhāve svārthānumānakathāyāḥ kathāśeṣatvaprasaṅgāc ca kaiva kathā parārthānumānasya/ upamānādikaṃ tu dūrāpāstam/ teṣāṃ saṃjñāsaṃjñisaṃbandhādibodhakatvenānaupādhika-saṃbandhabodhakatvāsaṃbhavāt/ > Nor can inference be the means of the knowledge of the universal proposition, since in the case of this inference we should also require another inference to establish it, and so on, and hence would arise the fallacy of an ad infinitum retrogression. > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy > Nor can testimony be the means thereof, since we may either allege in reply, in accordance with the Vaiśeṣika doctrine of Kaṇāda, that this is included in the topic of inference; or else we may hold that this fresh proof of testimony is unable to leap over the old barrier that stopped the progress of inference, since it depends itself on the recognition of a sign in the form of the language used in the child's presence by the old man;\[12\] and, moreover, there is no more reason for our believing on another's word that smoke and fire are invariably connected, than for our receiving the ipse dixit of Manu, &c. \[which, of course, we Cārvākas reject\]. > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy > And again, if testimony were to be accepted as the only means of the knowledge of the universal proposition, then in the case of a man to whom the fact of the invariable connection between the middle and major terms had not been pointed out by another person, there could be no inference of one thing \[as fire\] on seeing another thing \[as smoke\]; hence, on your own showing, the whole topic of inference for oneself\[13\] would have to end in mere idle words. > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy > Then again comparison,\[14\] &c., must be utterly rejected as the means of the knowledge of the universal proposition, since it is impossible that they can produce the knowledge of the unconditioned connection \[i.e., the universal proposition\], because their end is to produce the knowledge of quite another connection, viz., the relation of a name to something so named. > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy - [Previous: 1.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.39) - [Next: 1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.41) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-cowell.1.p18) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.1.40) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.40) · Pramāṇa