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SANMATI-TARKA
[ I. 32 instance from the standpoint of past, present and future it becomes three-fold subjecting itself to Artha Paryāya. In the same manner, it assumes manifold forms from Vyañjana Paryāya point of view.
: An atom, a being or some such thing, originally is one indivisible thing only, individually ; but it undergoes infinite variations of Sabda as well as Artha if we look to it from the standpoint of past, present and future. If we think that every such new variation is a different form of that thing, corresponding to the infinite variations the thing also becomes infinite in its forms. Thus owing to the difference of variations, the thing though originally one, becomes many. The one thing by virtue of its attributes becomes many. 31
An illustration of a Vyañjana Paryāya:पुरिसम्मि पुरिससद्दो जम्माई मरणकालपज्जन्तो। तस्स उ बालाईया पज्जवजोया बहुवियप्पा ॥ ३२ ॥
A man is termed as a man from the time of his birth to the time of his death. Boy and youth and other are mere modifications of that same Puruşa (man).
The same term 'man' is applicable in the case of a man from his birth upto his death, and every time he is
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