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this question the author gives his opinion that a quality is not different from a substance but identical. For Guņa is a synonym of Paryāya and Paryāya or attributes are of the nature of substance. A substance on the other hand is of the nature of attributes. The soul is of the nature of knowledge or of tbe nature of perception. Similarly a jar is red or yellow, in all these dealings it is obvious that the quality and the substance having that quality are identical. Once we accept the identity between substance and its Paryāya, it is needless to say that Guna (quality) and the substance are identical.. For Guna and Paryaya are synonyms 9-15
The following three verses give the arguments of the person who regard a subsance: and its quality as absolutely identical :
एयंतपक्खवाओ जो उण दव्व-गुण-जाइभेयम्मि । अह पुव्वपडिक्कुट्ठो उआहरणमित्तमेयं तु ॥ १६ ॥ पिउ-पुत्त-णत्तु -भव्वय-भाऊणं एगपुरिससंबंधो। ण य सो एगस्स पिय त्ति सेसयाणं पिया होइ ॥ १७ ॥ जह संबंधविसिट्टो सो पुरिसो पुरिसभावणिरइसो । तह दवमिंदियगयं रूवाइविसेसणं लहइ ॥१८॥
(16) We have already refuted the opinion that there is absolute difference between a substance and its quality. Here we want to
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