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pects ", and the mango-tree is not fruit-bearing only “in some respects",-viz., in respoot of time, space, nature and mood.
In the first predication, determinate affirmation was made of the object; in the second predication similarly only determinate negation is made of the object. The implications of the second predication are that with repeat to the nature of an object which is other than the pitcher, with respect to the time of this other object, with respect to the mood of that object and with respect to the location of that other objeot, the pitcher does not exist.
(1) Thus if the pitcher is made of earth, it cannot be said to exist as ear-ring, made of gold or even as a gold pitcher. This is meant by saying that with respect to “Paradravya " or the basic-substance of a different thing, the pitcher is non-existent.
(2) If the pitcher is found in the summerseason, it is non-exisent in, say, winter, which is not the time of the given pitober but which is the time for things other than that pitcher. In respect of 'Para-Kala' i. e, the time for things other than the given pitcher, the pitober does not exist.
(3) Let us suppose that the pitcher is of rod
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