Argument
IPVV — V3-D ARGUMENT MAP (the pramāṇavimarśa: the per-appearance operation, kārikās 3–8)
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Question. In V3-C, Abhinava established that the pramāṇa operates *on the appearance alone* (ābhāsamātre), not on the bare own-marker thing apart from all manifestation. Now the objection arises: if the pramāṇa seizes only the appearance, how can it ever reach the *single* thing (svalakṣaṇa) that the world treats as one — the jar, the fire? And how can many appearances belong to one thing? This is the classic sāmānya/svalakṣaṇa and ekatva/anekatva problem, worked out through kārikās 3–8.
Issue. **The question:** In V3-C, Abhinava established that the pramāṇa operates *on the appearance alone*
(ābhāsamātre), not on the bare own-marker thing apart from all manifestation. Now the objection
arises: if the pramāṇa seizes only the appearance, how can it ever reach the *single* thing
(svalakṣaṇa) that the world treats as one — the jar, the fire? And how can many appearances belong to
one thing? This is the classic sāmānya/svalakṣaṇa and ekatva/anekatva problem, worked out through
kārikās 3–8.
Premises
Kārikā 3
> From the appearance-distinction of the objects, the fixed object-action, again — through the
> co-reference (sāmānādhikaraṇya), of the un-divided by the appearance.
When appearances mix, one is primary (pradhāna) and is the common locus (samānam-adhikaraṇam) of the
others; the relation to it is the co-reference. The appearance so marked, quickened by the sentence-
awareness "this here, now, is the jar," is the cause from which the un-divided (those that have
attained one own-marker-ness, not aba
Unresolved. 1. The vā. pa. 1.35 citation ("the perception born of practice") — its exact force as
ābhyāsika-pratyakṣa is cited, not re-derived.
2. The "niyatiśaktimahimnā" ("by the glory of the niyati-power") — the determinative power is
load-bearing; the exact relation to kālaśakti is Abhinava's own, rendered as "the fixative power."
3. The kārikā 8's complex "tattacchabdārthatā" (this-and-this-word's-meaning) — the denotation fixed
by convention; kept close to the text.
Tension: IPVV-internal-arc-vimarsas
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