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[ III. & and its attributes. The author first of all mentions the viewpoint of his opponent:
रूव-रस-गंध-फासा असमाणग्गहण-लक्खणा जम्हा। तम्हा दव्वाणुगया गुण त्ति ते केइ इच्छति ॥८॥
Some people think that attributes or qualities of a substance are different from the substance and depend upon the subs. tance because these attributes of colour, smell, touch, taste are comprehended by means other than those by which a substance is different from those of its attributes.
Followers of Vaiseșika doctrine and even some of the followers of Jaina? doctrine believe that things that are cognized by different means and things that possess differ. ent characteristics are different from one another. For
1 In the original Gathā, there is a word Kecit meaning “Some." Here that meaning is accepted which is meant by the commentator. It cannot be said with reference to what Jaina learned men the commentator has applied the term of Swayüthya. Perhaps the works of such Jaina learned men must be before the eyes of the commentator as believe, like Vaisesikas, that attributes are different from the substance. How can the commentator employ the term Swayathya with reference to Kundakunda, Umaswati and others who are never extremists even though they believe in the theory that the attributes are different from substance ?
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