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104 [3]. Where do the unspeakable substances exist compatibly, according to the standpoints of) negama and vavahāra? Do they exist compatibly with the serial substances? Do they exist compatibly with the non-serial substances? Do they exist campatibly with the unspeakable substances ? (In reply, it is said that) according to (the standpoints of negama and vavahāra, (the unspeakable substances) do not exist compatibly with the serial substances, nor do they exist compatibly with the non-serial substances, but they exist compatibly with the unspeakable substances.
This is the compatible inclusion.
105. Then what is the consideration (through the doors of exposition)? The consideration (through the doors of exposition) is stated to be ninefold as (in the following verse)':
(i) ascertaining whether the word stands for something
real, and (ii) the numerical measurement; (iii) the place (where a thing exists), and (iv) (the range of) tactile contact; (v) the duration, and (vi) the interval (of time); (vii) the spatial part (occupied), (viii) the mode or state (of the substance), and (ix) (comparison of the aspect of being) less or more in
number) //8/! 106 1). Do the serial substances (such as the triads and the like which constitute the denotation of the word 'serial substances') exist or not exist, according to (the standpoints of) negama and vavahāra ? (The reply is that they) exist necessarily.
106 [2]. Do the non-serial substances exist or not exist, according to the standpoints of) negama and vavahāra? (The reply is that they) exist necessarily.
106 [3]. Do the unspeakable substances exist or not exist, according to the standpoints of) negama and vavahāra? (The reply is that they) exist necessarily.
107 [1]. According to (the standpoints of negama and vavahāra, are the serial substances numerable or innumerable or infinite (in number) ?
1. Cf: Tattvarthasūtra, I. 8.
