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EXAMINATION OF SYĀDVĀDA' (JAINA DOCTRINE).
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cern the man who seeks only for effective action and who is not concerned with the said difference or non-difference; as a matter of fact, when the Man seeks for effective action, he has recourse to that which he considers fit for that action; and he ponders over the difference or non-difference of only that thing; and he does not ponder over them simply because he likes to do it.
Otherwise ;-i.e. if Difference (Exclusiveness) and Non-difference (Inconclusiveness) are not regarded as real-then, of the thing capable of effective action, there would be real difference or exclusiveness, in its own form, and the General or inclusive character would be there, through the 'exclusion' (of all other things), which would be determined by the Conceptual Content. So that there would be no dispute on this point.
It is only to this extent that the man seeking for activity has recourse to the consideration of Difference in general, and where would there be any need for his considering any such General entity as is not capable of effective action ?
It might be argued that-" The thing itself may be the General,-(the comprehensive factor),--why assume exclusion at all?"
The answer to that is 'The Thing itself, etc. etc. --That is, if the form of the Cloth were present in the Jar, then the man seeking to carry Honey or Water might take up the Cloth; and there would be other such incongruous activities. The other likely incongruities meant are all things being produced and destroyed at the same time and so forth.-(1764-1775)
It may be that other people also, like the Buddhists, accept the view that the various Generalities (Universals, Commonalties) are assumed on the basis of things from which a certain thing is not not-excluded, and these Generalities embrace the Particulars (Individuals),
In view of this, the following remark is made :
TEXT (1776).
IN CASE THE VARIEGATED CHARACTER OF THINGS SPOKEN OF REFERS ONLY TO CONCEPTUAL CREATION (FANCY),—THEN WHAT WOULD BE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE ASSERTIONS MADE BY
'Vipras', 'Nirgranthas ' AND ' Kāpilas'?
COMMENTARY.
'Variegated character-Difference, Diversity.-(1776)
The following Texts set forth Kumärila's view on the subject :