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Sarvadarshanasangraha 7.41

Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 7.41

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7.41

saṃprati paśupadārtho nirūpyate — aṇukṣetrajñādipadavedaniyo jīvātmā paśuḥ/ na tu cārvākādivad dehādirūpaḥ/ nānyadṛṣṭaṃ smaraty anya iti nyāyena pratisaṃdhānānupapatteḥ/ nāpi naiyāyikādivat prakāśyaḥ/ anavasthānaprasaṅgāt/ tad uktam —

Now the category of Paśu is expounded: The paśu is the individual self (jīvātman) known by such terms as aṇu, kṣetrajña, and the like. It is not of the nature of the body and so forth, as the Cārvākas and others hold, because recognition would not be explicable, according to the principle that 'one does not remember what was seen by another.' Nor is it an object of illumination, as the Naiyāyikas and others hold, because that would entail an infinite regress. That has been said:

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