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Motion (karma), according to Kanada, is visually perceived when it inheres in a visually perceivable substance. Sankara Misra adds that motion is the object of tactual perception as well, provided it belongs to a tangible body. There is, therefore, no possibility of perceiving the motions of atoms or of minds. There is an old view, recorded in the Mahabhasya, according to which there is no such objectively real thing as motion; what is called motion is only a conceptual construction to explain the fact of one's reaching a particular place and thus having contact with it. The Prabhakar, though a realist, was in all 1. Sankara Misra, Vaisesika Upasakara,5. 1鈼� 15. 2. Kanada, vaidesika Sutra, <l.ll. 3. Sanker Misra, Vaisesika Upasakara, 4.lelle 4. Patanjali, Mahabhasye on PaninI-Sutra, 3.2.123.

246 probability influenced by this old theory of motion. For, according to him, motion is under no circumstances an object of perception. We perceive only the moving body and the successive conjunctions and disjunctions that its motion produces. The presence of motion in the body is inferred from these conjunctions and disjunctions. body The Bhatta Mimemskas and the Vaisesika adopt more or less the same line of argument to refute the Prabhakara view. When a moving body comes to be conjoined with or disjoined from certain points of space, the conjunctions and the disjunctions must have both the body and the space as their substrates. If, therefore, motion is to be inferred from these conjunctions and disjunctions, it most be inferred as belonging to the body as well as the space. This, however, is an obvious absurdity, for it is the body alone that moves, and space by its very nature is incapable of motion. Conjunctions and disjunctions thus 1. Salikanatha Misra, Prakaranapancik, Page 79. In Mechanics (the branch of Physics), Absolute Motion is the motion of a body with respect to another body whose position in space is absolutely fixede since there is no such body in the universe, absolute motion cannot be realized. Thus absolute rest and absolute motion are unknown to us. We know only of relative rest and relative motion. Michels and Pattersons Elements of Modern Physics DeVan Nostrand Company, INC, London, 1951, Pages 33-35.

do not constitute the valid logical ground for the inference of motion in a perceived body. Such motion should be supposed to be an object of direct perception. 247 4.