Tarkabhasa of Kesava Misra (study)
by Nimisha Sarma | 2010 | 56,170 words
This is an English study of the Tarkabhasa of Kesava Misra: a significant work of the syncretic Nyaya-Vaisesika school of Indian philosophy. The Tarka-bhasa is divided into Purvabhaga (focusing on pramanas) and Uttarabhaga (mainly covering prameya), with other categories briefly mentioned. The work was widely used as a beginner's textbook in southe...
8. Recollection or Smarana
87 Recollection or smarana Recollection or memory is knowledge of one's past. It is a representative cognition of past experience due to the impressions produced by them. 77 According to Kesava Misra recollection is of two kinds, valid and invalid. Both these kinds occur during wakeful stage. All cognitions arising in dreams are invalid recollections as all that is apprehended as 'that' (in the cognition) appears as 'this' (in the dream) due to certain defects. 77. samskaramatrajanyam jnanam smrtih. Tarkasamgraha 35.