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# Sarvadarshanasangraha 12.73

Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 12.73

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [12.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.12.73)

tathā ca prayogaḥ — vimataṃ prāmāṇyaṃ jñānahetvatiriktahetvadhīnaṃ kāryatve sati tadviśeṣāśritatvād aprāmāṇyavat/

> "The argument, in my opinion, runs as follows:—Right knowledge depends on some cause\[46\] other than the common causes of knowledge, from the very fact that, while it is an effect, it is also knowledge, just as wrong knowledge does.\[47\] Authoritativeness is known through something external to itself \[e.g., inference\], because doubt arises in regard to it in an unfamiliar case, as we also see in non-authoritativeness.  
> — 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.12.p33) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English
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