Qe: gandhavattvavat

[Elliot Stern]

While skimming last night a few pages beyond a passage I was reading for my
own research, I noticed a further early source for the example
gandhavattvavat, which Jeson Woo made the subject of a query on 29 August
1997.

UddyotakaraH introduces gandhavattvam in conclusion of his comment on
NyAyasUtram 3.1.3 (NyAyadarzanam, ed. T. Nyaya-Tarkatirtha, 1985: 716.8-11:

pRthivyAdinityatvasAdhane gandhavattvAdiprasaGga iti cet | atha manyase
yadi vyatirekI heturbhavatyanvayamantareNa atha pRthivyAdinityatve sAdhye
gandhavattvaM kasmAnna hetuH | na heturubhayavyAvRtteH |
yasmAdgandhavattvaM nityAccAnityAcca vyAvarttate na punaravyavasthAnamevam
tasmAdavyasthAnaM heturna gandhavattvam

On 29 September 1997, I submitted this reply:

Some time ago (29 August), Jeson Woo inquired:
>
>In order to explicate that existence (sattva) is asAdhAraNAnaikAntika
>hetu, VAcaspatimizra gives 'gandhavattva' as an example in his
>TAtparyaTIkA (NyAyadarzanam, ed. T. Nyaya-Tarkatirtha,1985: 841.9)....
>
>It seems that the 'gandhavattva' is well-known example to both sides of
>debaters. So far, however, I have not succeeded in identifying the source
>of the example.

Within a few days Horst Lasic identified a source, and I contributed a comment.
Today I would like to give further evidence that the example was known, and
how it was understood. jayantaH uses the example at nyAyamaJjarI (ed.
Suryanarayana Sukla) 2.26.5-6:

arthakriyAsamarthasya tvaduktaM sattvamastu vA |
tadapi vyAptiZUnyatvAnna heturgandhavattvavat ||

cakradharaH explains this (nyAyamaJjarIgranthibhaGgaH 192.18-20): *na
heturgandhavattvavat* | yathA gandhavattvaM nityatvenityatve vA na hetuH
tena sahA[nya]trAdRSTeH evaM sarvasya sAdhyatvAt sattvasya kZaNikatvena
sahAnyatrAdRSTiH |


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