The Doctrine of Recognition

/

THE

~OCTRINE

OFRECOGNITION

H

.I

v-/

(PRATYABHIJNADARSANA)·

Jp

Philosophico-religiousDoctrineofKashmir~;

(

AStudy

of

itsOriginandDevelopmentandPlaceInIndianandWesternSystems

of

Philosophy,

THESISFORTHEPH.D·DEGREEOFTHEPUNJABUNIVERSITY

...By.'

R.K.KAW

(M.A.•

CandidateforthePh;D.DegreeofthePunjabUniversity

1943.

1.ImeditateupontheGoddesso~Know1e4gewhose

8Ou1

endbo~isknowledge,inordertocrosstheocean

o-t

know1e~e./2.SeivascalltheTJl.timateCause

ot:

theuniverseasSiva-bindu.Themodernscientificphilosopherc~lsitastheAbsoluteIProtonttroundwhichverilyrevolve,~lectrons'inthe~onnorallplanetsystems.3.Ihevededic!'J.tedthewholeo~

my

li~etoknowthesecretoftheb!'J.ckgroundofthisuniverse,sincetheSrutiadmonishes,'Learnthesecretlore,80lol'lg

AS

yo~live.

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Inthe._~or1d-syetem(.Te,gat)theplanetsrevolveroundthesunandthatsystemit8el~takenasawholeisprobablyamovi~mass&I"Oundsomere1ativ~statio,'centreuntilwearriveatthenl'sma-binduorsiva-biJldU,thepointofAbsoluterestroundwhich

all

bodiesrevol~Theidea(Kl!1.pana)iabasedonthewell...;known"Electron'"'

theory-

according

to

whichtheBO-cal1ed.l\tom;iaa!!linia-'tureuniverseresemblingonesolarsystem.Atthecent"_

o-t

thisatomicsystemwehaveachargeofpositivealec--

e

trlcityroundwhichacloud

o-t

negativechargesrevolve.

0

_//CVo0ro:N'e)"/Accordire

to

SeivaDl1rsana,thehighest~eire(Par,rnaSivs.)hastwophases;oneis~'Viiwotirna'thetran--"scendenta:LJIlspect,standiq;beyondthecOSlllOa,thehighest-,staticcentreoftheworld,correspondingtoth~AbsoluteProton-theuniversalconciousnese(8pirit).Theoth,risViBvl!l'lll\YR.e.theimmanentI1spect,theenel"gy'

(S';1kt1~

corresponcUrgtoelect~ns,presenti~it.e1~inthe

I

mJllter1~formo~theunivertla.

_pngF'ACE~

Inthefollowinepageaana~tempth~sbeenmade

to

discuss~eoriginr.nddevelopmentofthepratyabh1j_

iii

System

of:

Philosophy

,<i13

itisexpoundedinK'lshmir'Sllivlllitltt'l\ture81.mostentiNllypublishedin

"K:ashnr:tr

Seriesof'rena

and

Studies".Inthisthesisthefollowingpl~nh~sbeenobservedt-

~~rt

I-

(Origin).Itdiscussesthepoints

of

viewo~aomeof'thenotedsc~olarsofthasubjactreg

"i

rdi

ing

th~

originofrratyAbh1j

na

systemandits,connec-tionwithS~nkeracarya'sSchoolandthetr~ditionregardingth~superiorityofPntyabhijnqoverthe1rediintl'\Doctrine.It

~lso

discusses~hebachgroundofphilo~ophico-rel1gioubthoughtinK~shmir,theearlierformaoi:ISA.iv~-F'r.qtY:thhij

'l-

doctrinestracedinVedaS

and

Upanisa.dasandt~eoriginalcontributionsofthesy6t~r~rtIIw(Development).Itdescribesthedevelop-mentofrr~tyabhijiiR.systemextlusivelyfromthei:irst-h~ndstudy

of

~aiva

I

~n~

otherliterature.

The

doctrineisdistinguishedint.wofonns,viz.,

1.The

t;}

1

11"lierdoctrine.~~ivan~r8anapresentedbySriSomananddinSivaDrsti,(theorigin~l~orm

of:

thedoctrine~

~.The

laterdootrine.Pratyabhij

n~

Dnrsane.

developedbyutpalsdevaandhissuccessorsAbhinavagupta

ana

I>thers,(Thefinalformofthedoct~ine)•

..<5>

Part

III.(Plac8ofpratyabhijnainthe.worldPhilosophy).Ittreatsoftheplae8ofPratyabhijIl/iin:•

,

1.The

Saiva8,Ystemso~Indi~,

2.

TheIndianPhilosophy,

and

3.

Thewesternsystemsofphilosoph..v~Tothebodyofthiswork

£s

pref.tXed'--:ra,nntro-ductionthrowt~lightonthe

llMle•..

and

~lUlJ_~ei2.!JI!I&:ttt-e,Jl"

i.

ofPratyabhiJ

na,

thecont~ibutions

made

byth•.•

~li:.l~f

schol6l"stothissubject

and

theobject.--

cf

'th1':tJi••le.

•'.j..

Tn

the

endaregivenAppendix

fA'

C

Tb~

'-t.ht~e

o.t,J

theworldPhilosophyinrelation

toPratyae_hij"i'(

.,8't;;.;J

Appendix

'B'

(Thebibliography)

end

Append'h

.~r~·

E

Th~

out-ltnequestionsdiscussedwithscholars'1ntthe:initialstages011this

wOl"k)

.Appendix'B

t

IUld1i;'

'have.•

notbeenincludedastheY'arenotyetcomplete..

,,*"'__

~e:ferences~to~givenin'foot-notes'

end

iE'soDie'oases~econtinueeinAppendix'D'.

Dec.

1942.

n.K.Ksw.

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