Argument
IPVV — Vol 1, Chunk K: ARGUMENT MAP (the tṛtīyo vimarśa: the siddhānta's reply, the self-luminous cognition)
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Question. The Buddhist's pūrvapakṣa (V1-F..J) has denied the self, the cognition, the action, and the relation. Now, in the third vimarśa, the siddhānta replies. Abhinavagupta grants the Buddhist much — that the cognition is not a separate thing in the Sāṃkhya/Kāṇāda views — but he turns it to his own end: the cognition is *self-cognition* (svasaṃvid), and this self-cognition is precisely the self that the Buddhist denied. The "I"-seeing (dṛk) is self-luminous, and it is the Lord.
Issue. **The question:** The Buddhist's pūrvapakṣa (V1-F..J) has denied the self, the cognition, the action,
and the relation. Now, in the third vimarśa, the siddhānta replies. Abhinavagupta grants the Buddhist
much — that the cognition is not a separate thing in the Sāṃkhya/Kāṇāda views — but he turns it to his
own end: the cognition is *self-cognition* (svasaṃvid), and this self-cognition is precisely the self
that the Buddhist denied. The "I"-seeing (dṛk) is self-luminous, and it is the Lord.
Premises
Maṅgala + the plan
"Bowing to the will-power-full, nectar-shining, capable of generating endless worlds; the Bhairava-joy,
thickened by the waves of the own-power…" The siddhānta is established in two adhikāras. In seven
verses (from "satyaṃ kintu" to "smṛtyapohanaśaktimān"), Abhinava examines and refutes the other view
(paradarśanānupapatti). The jñāna-vicāra is this adhikāra (the action-relation in the second). The plan:
two verses show the cognition is self-cognition (in memory, the experience does not shine, even in the
impression-raised); two reject the memory's error-ness (with a doubt), and by the third the
construction's error-ness is rejected by the prasaṅga (all the determinations); one shows that even
with the impression, in the other view, memory is unfitting (the dealing-lapse); one establishes
Unresolved. 1. The "satyaṃ kintu" concessive style (the prekṣāvat) — Abhinava's rhetorical method; preserved.
2. The "smṛtyapohanaśaktimān" (the one possessed of the memory-removal-power) — the siddhānta's
description of the self; kept close.
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