This treatise
“Mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq”
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this treatise · هذه الرسالة · Sāṃkhyakārikā · the āryā verses · what I have written
spoken of as
1 expressionSāṃkhyakārikā“this treatise”1 mention
Sāṃkhyakārikā (Sanskrit)
Therefore this treatise, [though] seen in brief, is not deficient in meaning — like the reflection [transferred] into a mirror of the vast-bodied [original] doctrine.
in the texts
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The book in hand, referred to by its author as a risālah whose subject is the rules of logic
So the scholars of logic hastened to gather what they found suitable for the guiding of the intellect and its schooling, in the way of rules, and to set out their arrangement and the manner of working by what they require, so that whoever is not secure against error in his disputations, his syllogisms, his inferences and his demonstrations might be saved by observing them — since he has need of th …
If I have profited anyone by what I have written, that is the end at which I aim;
But since these yield no certainty (yaqīn), and are arts (ṣināʻāt) proper to themselves and standing on their own, I have passed them over in this treatise
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The verse-treatise itself, referred to reflexively as the condensed record of the transmitted doctrine.
Therefore this treatise, [though] seen in brief, is not deficient in meaning — like the reflection [transferred] into a mirror of the vast-bodied [original] doctrine.
[The doctrine] handed down through the succession of disciples — this was condensed into āryā verses by the noble-minded Īśvarakṛṣṇa, having rightly understood the established conclusion (satkārya (siddhānta)).