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Verse 32 विरोधान्नोभयैकात्म्यं स्याद्वादन्यायविद्विषाम् । अवाच्यतैकान्तेऽप्युक्ति वाच्यमिति युज्यते॥३२॥
The enemies of the logic of syādvāda can also not maintain that the two (viz. 'absolute non-duality' and 'absolute separateness') characterize one and the same phenomenon, for such a position will be self-contradictory. And if they maintain that the phenomena that are there are absolutely indescribable, then even to say that a phenomenon is indescribable becomes an impossibility on their part. (32)
अस्तित्वनास्तित्वैकत्वानेकत्ववत् पृथक्त्वेतरपरस्परप्रत्यनीकस्वभावद्वयसंभवोऽपि मा भूत्, विप्रतिषेधात् । न खलु सर्वात्मना विरुद्धधर्माध्यासोऽस्ति, तदन्योन्यविधिप्रतिषेधलक्षणत्वात्, वन्ध्यासुतवत् । सर्वथानभिलाप्यतत्त्वाधिगमेऽपि यदेतदनभिलाप्यं तत्त्वमिति तत् व्याहन्यते, पूर्ववत् ॥३२॥
Comment on verse 32 This verse literally repeats the verse 13 and serves in the present section the same purpose as the latter does in the first.
verses 33-36 अनपेक्षे पृथक्त्वैक्ये ह्यवस्तु द्वयहेतुतः।
तदेवैक्यं पृथक्त्वं च स्वभेदैः साधनं यथा॥३३॥ Oneness and separateness as unrelated to each other are both something fictitious on account of the two sets of considerations (that have already been offered). As a matter of fact, one and the same phenomenon is characterized by both oneness and separateness just as one and the same probans is characterized by a number of essential features (enumerated by the logicians). (33)
Note : The 'essential features of a probans' here meant are (i) presence in the locus-of-probandum, (ii) presence in homologues, and (iii) absence in a heterologue. .
एकत्वपृथक्त्वे नैकान्ततः स्तः, प्रत्यक्षादिविरोधात्, इति स्पष्टयति । पृथक्त्वैकत्वे तथाभूते न स्ताम्, एकत्वपृथक्त्वरहितत्वात्, व्योमकुसुमादिवत् । सापेक्षत्वे हि तदेवैक्यं
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