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[SŪ. 2. 2. 18.
ADH. 3.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 349
sentience of the objects aggregated, as well as on account of non-
admission of another cause of the aggregation, the aggregates are not
possible
Vedānta-kaustubha
Kapila, the maintainer of the doctrine of pre-existing effects,
holds that pradhāna, not having Brahman for its soul, is the cause
of the world He has been refuted by reason of maintaining what is
opposed to the doctrine of the causality of Brahman and the Vedic
doctrine Kaṇāda, inferior even to him in intelligence and the
maintainer of the doctrine of non-existing effects, holds the cause of
the world to be of various kinds ¹, and hence he has been refuted by
reason of maintaining what is opposed to the ‘great’.² Now, the
doctrine of the Buddhists, inferior to that even, is being refuted, on
account of its similarity to that.³
The doctrine taught by the Buddha being interpreted differently,
four views were propounded by his four classes of disciples. These
followers are called, (1) Vaibhāṣika, (2) Sautrāntika, (3) Yogācāra,
and (4) Mādhyamika. Among these, the first two maintain the
reality of external objects Among them, again, the first maintains
that external objects are directly perceivable. According to him,
external objects, like pots and the rest, are knowable by the evidence
of direct perception. The other maintains that external objects are
inferrible through cognitions. According to him, external objects like
pots and rest, which are not directly perceived, are inferred through
cognitions, produced in the forms of pots and so on and directly
perceived. The third maintains the reality of cognitions alone without
any substratum. He holds that external objects are like dreams.
All of them maintain that the objects admitted by them are momen-
tary. The view of the fourth is that everything is void. He holds
that the continuous stream of cognitions, freed from object and
subject-forms, persists from moment to moment of the basis of past
impressions, like a lamp in a place sheltered from wind. But when
past impressions are destroyed, it attains a complete extinction like
the lamp itself, this attainment of non-existence is salvation. The
others, on the other hand, hold that there is no interruption in the
¹ Viz. the four kinds of atoms. ² Vide Br Sū 2.2 17.
³ The Buddhists too admit the aggregation of atoms like the Vaiśeṣikas.