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Sarvadarshanasangraha 2.33

Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 2.33

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Sanskrit

2.33

(B2) atha bhāvād abhinno ´tiśayaḥ sahakāribhir ādhīyata ity abhyupagamyeta tarhi prācīno bhāvo ´natiśayātmā nivṛtto ´nyaś cātiśayātmā kurvadrūpādipadavedanīyo jāyata iti phalitaṃ mamāpi manorathadrumeṇa/ tasmāt krameṇākṣaṇikasyārthakriyā durghaṭā/

Now (or the other grand alternative), let it be granted that a supplementation identical with the entity (the seed, or whatever it may be) is taken on. If so, the former entity, that minus the supplementation, is no more, and a new entity identical with the supplementation, and designated (in the technology of Buddhism) kurvad rūpa (or effect-producing object), comes into being: and thus the tree of my desires (my doctrine of a universal flux) has borne its fruit.

Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

Practical efficiency, therefore, in the non-momentary is inadmissible. Nor is practical efficiency possible apart from succession in time; for such a possibility is redargued by the following dilemma. Is this (permanent) entity (which you contend for) able to produce all its effects simultaneously, or does it continue to exist after production of effects? On the former alternative, it will result that the entity will produce its effects just as much at one time as at another; on the second alternative, the expectation of its permanency is as reasonable as expecting seed eaten by a mouse to germinate.

Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

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