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# Sarvadarshanasangraha 10.24

Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 10.24

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [10.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.10.24)

dvitvāder apekṣābuddhijanyatve kiṃ pramāṇam/ atrāhur ācāryāḥ — apekṣābuddhir dvitvāder utpādikā bhavitum arhati/ vyañjakatvānupapattau tenānuvidhīyamānatvāt/ śabdaṃ prati saṃyogavad iti/ vayaṃ tu brūmaḥ — dvitvādikam ekatvadvayaviṣayānityabuddhivyaṅgyaṃ na bhavati anekāśritaguṇatvāt pṛthaktvādivad iti/

> But it may here be asked what is the proof of duality, &c., being thus produced from apekṣābuddhi? The great doctor (Udayana) maintained that apekṣābuddhi must be the producer of duality, &c., because duality is never found separated from it, while, at the same time, we cannot hold apekṣābuddhi as the cause only of its being known \[and therefore it follows that it must be the cause of its being produced\[25\]\], just as contact is with regard to sound. We, however, maintain the same opinion by a different argument; duality, &c., cannot be held to be made known (jñāpya) by that non-eternal apprehension whose object is two or more individual unities (i.e., apekṣābuddhi), because these are qualities which reside in a plurality of subjects \[and not in any one individual\[26\]\] just as "severalty" does \[and, therefore, as apekṣābuddhi is not their jñāpaka, it must be their janaka\].  
> — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

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## 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.10.p21) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English
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