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Samantbhadra-Bharati. [Chapter 10
Information about the nature and distinctions of dravyas, the collection of nayas, upanayas, and ekantas of the three times. The inseparable relationship of dravya is one and many. ||107||
'The collection of nayas, upanayas, and ekantas of the three times, which is the inseparable relationship (identity) of the particular characteristics, is the dravya-substance, and it is one and many in its distinctions.'
The position of absolute and relative nayas is not a group of falsehoods, nor is there any falsehood in the ekantas. Absolute nayas are false, relative nayas are the objects of truth. ||108||
'If it is said that (since you call ekantas false, then the collection of nayas and upanayas, which are ekantas, is dravya, then it is a false collection), the collection of falsehoods is itself false (therefore, dravya is not a substance), then this is not correct, because (O Jinadeva!) in your opinion, and therefore in ours (because of the acceptance of relative nayas), there is no falsehood in the ekantas. The nayas (which are absolutely negating the opposing dharma) are false nayas (durnayas), the relative nayas (which ignore or make the opposing dharma secondary) are not false but true nayas, their objects are the agents of action, and therefore the substantiality of their collection is well-established.'
Explanation-Here, the opponent of anekanta has objected that when ekantas are called false, then the collection of nayas and upanayas, which are ekantas, which is the anekanta and identical reality, is also false; because the collection of falsehoods is itself false. To this, the author says that this