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III. 20, 21 ) . CHAPTER III . [ 127 on its relation to other things. Similarly that a person is either great or small does not depend merely on his relation to other persons.
In the following verse the person holding the view of absolute identity defends his own position thus:--
भएणइ संबंधवसा जइ संबंधित्तणं अणुमयं ते । णणु संबंधविसेसे संबंधिविसेसणं सिद्धं ॥२०॥
We say if you once admit a general relation of a thing owing to its being related in general to other things, why should you have any difficulty in allowing same particular relation of a thing with another thing with which it is related in a particular way ?
To this the author replies in the following verse :
जुज्जइ संबंधवसा संबंधिविसेसणं ण उण एयं । णयणाइविसेसगो रूवाइविसेसपरिणामो॥२१॥
True that peculiar relation proceeds from peculiar relationship, but colour, smell and other transformations spring from the
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