Essay name: Discovery of Sanskrit Treasures (seven volumes)
Author:
Satya Vrat Shastri
Affiliation: Karnatak University / Department of Sanskrit
The series called "Discovery of Sanskrit Treasures" represents a comprehensive seven-volume compendium of Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri's research on Sanskrit and Indology. They feature a wide range of studies across major disciplines in these fields, showcasing Shastri's pioneering work. They include detailed analyses like the linguistic appraisal of Yogavasishtha, etymological studies in the Mahabharata and the Devibhagavata-purana, as well as explorations of human values as defined in ancient texts.
Volume 5 - Philosophy and Religion
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Philosophy and Religion
To Bhart峁沨ari, time, though itself unchangeable is the cause
of all change, motion and order. Every object is governed by the
power of Kala. Why the sun rises and sets at regular hours, why
the moon shines for the night and not for the day; why the sun
moves for six months along the southern path (dak峁峁嚹亂a峁嘺) and
for another six months along the northern path (uttar膩ya峁嘺), why
the planets and stars move in a particular order-all these can
only be explained as being due to the all-pervasive and all-
powerful nature of K膩la. The coming into existence and passing
out of existence, the appearance and disappearance of all objects
is caused by time alone.
Other differentiations of time are also unreal, they are merely
superimposed. A thing is not before it actually comes into being;
it is, when it has been created. The mind, however, conceives it
as one positive existence. When we set about putting together the
competent means to the fulfilment of an act, we say it is
Commencement-time, when the means thus put together start
operating, we say it is Performance-time. And when a thing
desired to be effected has been accomplished, we say it is Closing-
time.
But time remains unaltered by these ideal divisions, says the
great thinker; the Commencement time, etc. in the case of a
dvya峁噓ka (dvad) is exactly the same as that of the Himalayan
range. The nature of a thing can neither be altered nor
augmented.68 The meaning is that objects are essentially
indivisible (svar奴pe峁嘺 nira峁兣沘) wholes, they would indeed be
divisible if they were no more than a conglomeration of parts;
hence the Commencement time etc. does not differ. The
component parts are quite defferent from the whole they make.
A jar is verily different from the sherds which go to form it. Even
the magnitude, a property, is different from the whole. With the
difference therefore in magnitude, things need not differ, suffer
augmentation or reduction. Hence all produced substances, all
wholes being non-distinguishable, it is not because of them that
the Commencement time of
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