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Samantbhadra-Bharati
[Chapter 6
Direct knowledge of the means and examples is necessary. Without direct knowledge of the virtuous, etc., no inference can be established. To imagine an inference-antecedent for the sake of inferential knowledge leads to the fault of infinite regress and no inference can be formed. And then, the scriptural instruction in the form of parārthanumāna also becomes useless - it becomes pointless; because even in the case of a familiar object, if the proof is not accepted from direct perception, then knowledge of words and linga (reason) will not be formed; and in this way, both svārthanumāna and parārthanumāna will not be formed.)
If the validity of the entire group of principles is accepted from the scriptures alone, then these contradictory views (which are independent of reasoning) will also attain validity because from the perspective of the scriptures alone, there is no difference between the two scriptures and the presentation of the principles is contradictory to each other. Accepting both as valid or certain from the perspective of the scriptures will lead to the validity of contradictory meanings from the perspective of the principles, and then there will be no real order of any principle, nor will social conduct be well-organized.
The above-mentioned duality and the fault of the inexpressible extremes is the unity of contradiction, which is the hatred of the Syadvada-Nyaya-scholars.
Even in the inexpressible extreme, it is not appropriate to say that it is inexpressible. ||77|| _ If both reason and scripture are considered to be one, then that too will not be possible; because there is mutual contradiction between the two. The coexistence of two completely contradictory principles is impossible for those who hate Syadvada-Nyaya and do not accept the validity of reason and scripture in any way. If (through both the extremes of reason and scripture, there is a contradiction in the validity of the principles