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## Samantabhadra-Bharati
[ Chapter 7: Where there is uninterruptedness, there is proof. In this way, there is no contradiction in the arrangement of proof and non-proof; because due to the absence of a particular covering of the same living being, the attainment of the sensory result in the form of true-false-appearance is established in the same way as the excellent-inferior result of gold is established due to the absence of a particular covering of dirt-blackness. If someone says that the living being is not an object, then this cannot be said; because there is the existence of the proof of the receiver (indicator of existence) of the living being, which is explained in the next verses.
The word 'Jiva' is a noun, therefore it has an external meaning. The word 'Jiva' has an external meaning because it is a noun, like the word 'Hetu'. The nouns of illusion like Maya etc. are like their own pronouncements. || 84 ||
The word 'Jiva' is associated with an external meaning - the meaning of the word 'Jiva' in the external is the living being object, which is specific in form and characteristics - because this word is a noun (name), and the word which is in the form of a noun or name does not exist without an external meaning, like the word 'Hetu' used in the inference of 'Agnimaan' etc., the noun-like 'Hetu' word like 'Dhuma' (smoke) etc. does not exist without the existence of the external object named 'Dhuma' etc., all the 'Hetuvadi' consider the 'Hetu' word to be associated with an external meaning; otherwise, there cannot be any difference between 'Hetu' and 'Hetvabhas'.
(If someone says here that there are nouns of illusion like Maya (illusion) etc., which do not have any external meaning, therefore the noun-making is anekantic - vyabhichari - then it will not be necessary for the word 'Jiva' to have an external meaning, then this is not correct because) the nouns of illusion like Maya etc. are also carrying their meaning along with them, like the pronouncements of proof. Just as the knowledge-characteristic of the proof-statement is the external meaning, in the same way, the external meaning of the nouns of illusion like Maya etc. is also...