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CHAPTER II.
The First Predication. The first of the seven ways of relating an attribute, feature or modifications to an objectthe first predication as it is called-is to think of the relationship as an affirmative one and its expression in language would be a positive statement. The stock example of this first predication in the Jaina philosophical works consists in taking Ghata or a pito her as the object and Astitva or existence, as an attribute, aspect or modal feature of that object and then stating “The Pitcher Exists."
To the proposition are added two extremely important indeclinables viz. “Syat” and “Eva", the former at the beginning of the proposition and the latter, towards the end, just before the last word expressing the object. In Sanskit, the first predication accordingly stands as :
Syadastyeva Ghatah Syat-asti-eva Ghatah
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