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SANMATI-TARKA
[ 1. 36-40
All the affirmative qualities of a thing can be stated one after another in the clear unambiguous words but if we have to describe all such qualities simultaneously we cannot find any adequate expression for it. In such cases the thing is said to be indecribable. This is the third mode (where the thing is said to be indescribable) and from its own point of view this statement also is true,
With reference to a man--these seven modes would be as follows:- From a particular point of view, he is only a man (2) not a man (3) he is indescribable (4) is man as well as not man (5) is man as well as is indescribable (6) is not a man as well as indescribable (7) is man, not a man as well as is indescribable.
The characteristic of a man consists in his being of a particular form, size and attributes and also consists in his not being of any other qualities or nature. It follows, therefore, that a man is man from the standpoint of his own form and a not-man from the standpoint of the form of others. Similarly it is impossible to be man from the standpoint of his own form as well as other's form at one and the same time. Thus originally there are only three principal modes:-(i) is (ii) is not and (iii) is indescribable. All the rest are derived from these three modes. 36-40
.. Distribution of these seven modes between Artha-paryāya and Vyañjana-paryāya is made in the following verse:
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