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Semantic Atomism: A Scientific Commentary on Vaiśeṣika Sūtras

Semantic Atomism: A Scientific Commentary on Vaiśeṣika Sūtras

Dalela, Ashish

Paperback

Series: Six Systems of Vedic Philosophy, Book 6

Religion General Hinduism

ISBN10: 9385384414
ISBN13: 9789385384417
Publisher: Shabda Press
Published: Sep 27 2021
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Vaiśeṣika is one of the Six Systems of Vedic philosophy, and Vaiśeṣika Sūtra is the oldest and most authoritative text on this philosophy. This book translates and comments on this ancient text.

Vaiśeṣika describes all things in the world as Padārtha-pada denotes a symbol and artha denotes its meaning. These symbols of meaning are created by the combination of Samānya and Vaiśesa or universals and individuals. These Padārtha are connected to each other through a relationship of inherence called Samvāya, which we can call the whole-part relationship. Thus, one symbol represents the whole, and the other symbols connected to it through inherence constitute its parts. This whole-part relation between symbols of meaning is organized from whole to parts like an inverted tree in which the root is the whole, the branches are the parts of the root, the leaves are parts of the branches, etc.

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