[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) › 8.58 # Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.58 Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 8.58 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.58) ye tu varṇayanti nopādānaṃ vinā ghaṭādyutpattir iti yogī tv icchayā paramāṇūn vyāpārayan saṃghaṭayatīti te ’pi bodhanīyāḥ/ yadi paridṛṣṭakāryakāraṇabhāvaviparyayo na labhyeta tarhi ghaṭe mṛddaṇḍacakrādi dehe strīpuruṣasaṃyogādi sarvam apekṣyeta/ tathā ca yogīcchāsamanantarasaṃjātaghaṭadehādisaṃbhavo duḥsamartha eva syāt/ cetana eva tu tathā bhāti bhagavān bhūribhago mahādevo niyatyanuvartanollaṅghanaghanatarasvātantrya iti pakṣe na kācid anupapattiḥ/ ata evoktaṃ vasuguptācāryaiḥ — > As for those who say that a jar or the like cannot be made without materials to make it of, and that when a thaumaturgist makes one he does so by putting atoms in motion by his will, and so composing it: they may be informed that unless there is to be a palpable violation of the causal relation, all the co-efficients, without exception, must be desiderated; to make the jar there must be the clay, the potter's staff, the potter's wheel, and all the rest of it; to make a body there must be the congress of the male and female, and the successive results of that congress. Now, if that be the case, the genesis of a jar, a body, or the like, upon the mere volition of the thaumaturgist, would be hardly possible. > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy > On the other hand, there is no difficulty in supposing that Mahādeva, amply free to remain within or to over-step any limit whatever, the Lord, manifold in his operancy, the intelligent principle, thus operates. Thus it is that Vasuguptācārya says— > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy - [Previous: 8.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.57) - [Next: 8.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.59) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8) ## 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.8.p47) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.8.58) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.58) · Pramāṇa