Sūtra 3.2.18 (Proof of Soul not from Revelation only)
WisdomLib.org (Nandalal Sinha, 1923) · Vaisheshika Sutras 3.2 · Verse 3.2.18
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Sanskrit Original
अहमिति मुख्ययोग्याभ्यां शब्दवद्व्यतिरेकाव्यभिचाराद्विशेष सिद्धेर्नागमिकः ॥ ३.२.१८ ॥
ahamiti mukhyayogyābhyāṃ śabdavadvyatirekāvyabhicārādviśeṣa siddhernāgamikaḥ || 3.2.18 ||
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(The soul is) not proved (only) by Revelation, since, (as Ether is proved by Sound, so) (the Soul is) proved in particular, by the innate as well as the sensible cognition in the form of ‘I,’ accompanied by the invariable divergence (of such cognition from all other things), as is the case with Sound.