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## 104 Samantabhadra-Bharati
[If section 10 were not there, then why would we engage in such an attachment, thinking that by means of a sentence, only affirmation (vidhi) or negation (anyapoha) is spoken? Why would we engage in a deceptive tendency or deceive others? Therefore, just as affirmation (vidhi) alone is not established by means of a sentence, in the same way, negation (anyapoha) alone is not established. But both are established, and this is the nature of speech (vani).
**Abhipret-visheshaki prapti ka saccha sadhan samanyavagvisheshe chenn shabdartho mrishha hi sa. Abhipret-visheshapte: syatkara satya-lanchanah. ||112||**
'If it is said that a general sentence (like 'asti') exists in the particular negation (anyapoha) of the other - it indicates that, then this is not correct; because the general sentence is not in the particular form of the word-meaning - it does not know or indicate the particular situated in the intention - and therefore it is not true but a false sentence. The true sign or mark of obtaining the particular situated in the intention is 'syatvada' (statement preceded by the word 'syat') - when a general-particular object is stated mainly in a general form, then its particular form becomes secondary and is situated in the speaker's intention, which is expressed or indicated by the word 'syat' used along with it. And therefore, 'syatkara' is the true means and path of knowing the intended particular. The intended is that which is real by means of its own form etc. (svadravy-kshetra-kal-bhav) - not by means of the other's form etc.'
**Explanation:** The Buddhists say that the sentence that speaks of the general in the form of affirmation also indicates the particular (anyapoha) - its tendency is in that. But their statement is not consistent...