Tarka-Saṃgraha / 65. Memory, true and false
65
स्मृतिरपि द्विविधा यथार्था अयथार्था च । प्रमाजन्या यथार्था । अप्रमाजन्या अयथार्था smṛtir api dvividhā yathārthā ayathārthā ca | pramājanyā yathārthā | apramājanyā ayathārthā
The line
Memory also is twofold, as the thing is and as the thing is not. Born of a true knowing, it is as the thing is. Born of a false knowing, it is as the thing is not.
नेपालीमा
स्मृति पनि दुई प्रकारको हुन्छ, वस्तु जस्तो छ त्यस्तै र वस्तु जस्तो छैन त्यस्तै। सत्य ज्ञानबाट जन्मेको स्मृति वस्तु जस्तै हुन्छ, र मिथ्या ज्ञानबाट जन्मेको स्मृति वस्तु जस्तो छैन त्यस्तै हुन्छ।
Where it sits
The qualities that were left waiting after cognition resume at 66, with pleasure.
Split: smṛtiḥ (स्मृतिः) + api (अपि) + dvividhā (द्विविधा) + yathārthā (यथार्था) + ayathārthā (अयथार्था) + ca (च) + pramā-janyā (प्रमा-जन्या) + yathārthā (यथार्था) + apramā-janyā (अप्रमा-जन्या) + ayathārthā (अयथार्था)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| smṛtiḥ (स्मृतिः) | nominative singular, feminine | Memory. From 34. Heard smṛtir (स्मृतिर्) before api (अपि). |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | Also. Memory too, not only present cognition. |
| yathārthā (यथार्था) | nominative singular, feminine | As the thing is. |
| ayathārthā (अयथार्था) | nominative singular, feminine | As the thing is not. |
| pramā-janyā (प्रमा-जन्या) | nominative singular, feminine | Born of a true knowing. That memory is the true one. |
| apramā-janyā (अप्रमा-जन्या) | nominative singular, feminine | Born of a false knowing. That memory is the false one. The file ran the words together as apramājanyāyathārthā (अप्रमाजन्यायथार्था). The sitting keeps apramājanyā (अप्रमाजन्या) and ayathārthā (अयथार्था). |
The phrases
A memory is true when the knowing it came from was true. It is false when the knowing it came from was false.
Memory is not a fifth means. It inherits its standing from the knowing that left the trace.
Sanskrit in this line
Pramā (प्रमा) plus janyā (जन्या) is pramājanyā (प्रमाजन्या).
Say it back
Say what makes a memory true.