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## Karika 48] Devagam
41. Therefore, Buddhists should know that no object is inexpressible or non-qualifier-qualified in isolation. ... The inexpressibility of non-existence and the non-existence of existence.
That which is devoid of all qualities is non-existent - not being the object of any proof - and that which is non-existent is (completely) inexpressible (unspeakable), not the existent; because that which exists is established (confirmed) by proof and therefore is not completely inexpressible. _(If it is said that the non-existent, devoid of all qualities, is not accepted by the Syadvadins, then their statement that 'non-existent is inexpressible' does not seem to be justified, then it is not correct to say so; because the statement of the non-existent, devoid of all qualities, as inexpressible is related only to the hypothetical assumption, not to the strength of proof), the strength of proof is obtained only by the object, the non-existence is obtained by the object, due to the reversal or change of the process, i.e., when the process of the four characteristics of a substance, etc., of an object, which is taken in any form, changes - it takes on the expectation of another substance, field, time, and state - then that object itself becomes non-existent. For example, the non-existence of a pot in the form of a cloth, etc., in relation to the forms of the cloth, etc., in the pot, which is established by its own nature.
(If it is said that it is contradictory to call an object non-existent; because the state of existence and non-existence is mutually exclusive - existence is not non-existence and non-existence never becomes existence, then it is not correct to say so; because even by the utterance of words denoting absence, the meaning of absence is conveyed; for example,