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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XY.
Action',-being one and the same, any division among the said Categories would be impossible.-835-839)
The following Text propounds the possibility of the notion of Cow in regard to the Elephant :
TEXT (840).
SIMILARLY, THE INHERENCE OF THE UNIVERSAL ELEPHANT IN THE ELEPHANT SHOULD BE ONE AND THE SAME AS THE INHERENCE OF THE VARIOUS UNIVERSALS Cow' AND THE REST IN
THEIR RESPECTIVE SE BSTRATA.-(8-40)
COMENTARY.
In the following Texts (8+1-845), the author sets forth the user given by Prashaslamali
TEXT (811).
"EVEN THOUGH INHERENCE IS ONE, THE RESTRICTION OF container and contained IS ALWAYS THERE ; BY VIRTUE OF WHICH THE UNIVERSAL * SUBSTANCE' IS PRESENT IN SUBSTANCES ONLY, AND THE UNIVERSAL ACTION IS PRESENT IN
ACTIONS ONLY,"-(841)
COMMENTARY
Praskastamati has arguiod as follows:-"Though Inherence is one, yet there is no likelihood of an admixture among the five Categories: because there is always a restriction as to what is contained in what; that is to say, the Universal Substance' is contained in Substances only, the Universal
Quality 'is contained in Qualities only, the Universal 'Action is contained in Actions only; and so on, the notion of the Universals Substance and the rest appear as restricted to a particular substratum only."-(841)
In anticipation of the objection that in that case, Inherence would vary with each object ':-Prashastapati offers the following explanation :
