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own, natural; kurvānam in the state of doing; evambhūta-nayo the such-like standpoint; dhruvam verily, surely).
Evambhuta-naya (the such-like standpoint) verily recognises an object denoted by a word only when the object is in the actual state of performing its own natural function (as suggested by the derivative meaning of that word). 17.
ARGUMENT AS TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUCH
LIKE (EVAMBHŪTA) STANDPOINT:
यदि कार्यमकुर्वाणोऽपीष्यते तत्तया स चेत् ।। तदा पटेऽपि न घटव्यपदेशः किमिष्यते ॥ १८ ॥ yadi kāryam akurvāņo' pīşyate tat tayā sa cet i
tadā pațe’pi na ghața-vya padeśaḥ kim işyzte ll 18
[ yadi if; kāryam function; akurvāṇaḥ not doing; api even; işyate is recognised; tattayā really; sa it (object); cet if; tadā then; pate in a cloth; api also; na not; ghațavyapadesaḥ an appellation of a jar; kim why; işyate is accepted ].
(For) if a thing be really recognized, even when it does not fulfil its function, then why can cloth be not called a jar? 18.
EXPLANATION:--If a thing is not in the state of performing its function, as expressed by the term at the moment of recognition, and still it be recognised as that thing, then even a jar can be called a cloth, thought it is not in the state of discharging the function of a cloth. Etymologically, evambhūta means 'true in its entirety to the word and the sense'. This means that all the qualities denoted by the word are prominent and observable; the samabhirūdha is also true to the
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