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TATTVASANGRAHA CHAPTER XVI.
plishment of such things as the sky.flower; and that bearnse all such are featureless,
The following might be urged--"Even though Apoha is fentaureless in reality, yet by delnded persons it is conceived as something oxternal, and hence, it comes to appear as with features"
The answer to this is- What if it is so ? That is, even if the Apoha appears to be with features, how does that help you in the present context ?
• The other party replies-" In that case, etc. etc. that is, what follows from it is that, just as the positive entity is apprehended in accomplished form, so Apoha also, being cognised as having the same properties as positive entities, is apprehended as something accomplished; hence the assertion that it is accomplished' is quite right ".-(1150-1151)
The answer to the above argument of the opponent is that, if it is as just explained, then you yourseli have shown the basis of the notion of being accomplished' and of that of past and so forth, and consequently you should not say that all this becomes baseless.
This is what is shown in the following
TEXT (1152).
THUS THEN, THE NOTION OF BEING ACCOMPLISHED, AS ALSO THE CONCEPTION OF THE PAST 'ETO., -BEING OF THE SAME FORM AS POSITIVE ENTITIES,COMES TO BE BASED UPON
THAT SAMB.-(1152)
COMMENTARY.
. Based upon that same',-1.e. based upon the apprebension of the fact that they are of the same character as Positive entities.-(1152)
It has been argued (under Text 977, by Kumärila) that," In the case of all such denotations as Injunction and the rest, there is no idea of the exclusion of other things".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1153)
IN THE CASE OF ALL SUCH DENOTATIONS AS THE Injunction AND THE LIKE,—WHAT IS EXCLUDED' (NEGATIVSD) IS 'NON-EXISTENCE, ETC., --EXACTLY THAT WHICH IS NOT MEANT TO BE SPOKEN
OF ; BOT THIS IS DONE BY IMPLICATION,
NOT DIRECTLY BY THE WORD.-(1153)
COMMENTARY.
All such Denotations as the Injunction and the like are always differentiated from Negation' and the resty and are apprehended as ench;