[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) › 10.43 # Sarvadarshanasangraha 10.43 Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 10.43 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [10.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.10.43) atha nīlaṃ tama iti gateḥ kā gatir iti cet > But you may ask, "How can you say that darkness is destitute of qualities, when it is perceived as possessed of the dark blue of the tamāla blossom?" We reply, that this is merely an error, as when men say that the \[colourless\] sky is blue. But enough of this onslaught on ancient sages.\[40\] (b.) Hence it follows that darkness cannot have its colour imposed upon it, since you cannot have an imposition of colour without supposing some substratum to receive it;\[41\] and again, we cannot conceive the eye as capable of imposing a colour when deprived of the concurrent cause, the external light. Nor can we accept that it is an impression independent of the eye \[i.e., produced by the internal sense, mind\], because the concurrence of the eye is not a superfluous but an indispensable condition to its being produced. Nor can you maintain that "absence or non-existence (abhāva\[42\]) is incapable of being expressed by affirmative tense affixes \[and, therefore, as we do use such phrases as tenebræ oriuntur, darkness cannot be a mere non-existence"\]; because your assertion is too broad, as it would include such cases of non-existence as a mundane collapse, destruction, inattention,\[43\] &c. \[and yet we all know that men do speak of any of these things as past, present, or future, and yet all are cases of abhāva\]. > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy - [Previous: 10.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.10.42) - [Next: 10.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.10.44) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.10) ## 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.p29.2) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.10.43) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.10.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.10.43) · Pramāṇa