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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XIX,
Gavaya, it would be in proximity (to the senses), the similarity would be within reach of the senses.
Sannidhi' stands for the character of being in proximity.
Garayasthatval'-is the reason for its being regarded as in proximity : the sense being that-because the similarity resides in the Gavaya, therefore it is in proximity to the senses.-(1531)
Objection - Similarity resides in two things; how then can it be perceived in the Gavaya alone (the other thing, the Cow, not being before the eyes)? Answers
TEXT (1532).
"LIKE THE Universal, SIMILARITY RESIDES IN ITS ENTIRETY IN EACH MEMBER; BECAUSE EVEN WHEN THE CO-RELATIVE IS NOT PERCEIVED, THE SIMILARITY IS ACTUALLY
PERCEIVED."-(1532)
COMMENTARY.
The term 'sůmânyavat', means that it is like the Universal.
Even though similarity lies between two members, yet, like the Universal, it resides in its entirety in each member; it is for this reason that even when the co-relative, in the shape of the Cow (in the case in question) is not perceived, the similarity is actually peroeived in the other member (Gavaya) which is before the eyes.--(1532)
The following might be urged-- If similarity were an entity by itself, then it could be perceived ; as a matter of fact, however, it is not admitted that it is an entity by itself'. Answer:
TEXT (1533)
“THE FACT OF Similarity BEING AN ENTITY CANNOT BE DENIED; BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY EXISTS IN THE FORM OF THE PRESENCE IN A THING OF ONE KIND OF SEVERAL PARTS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN THAT OF ANOTHER KIND." [Shlokavártika
Upamāna, 18.]-(1533)
COMMENTARY.
As a matter of fact, Similarity is a relationship in the shape of the Inherence, in a particular individual, of many parts in the shape of the Horns and others, as existing in the Cow, in the particular Individual, the Gavaya ;-and a Relationship is not something entirely different from the Relatives ; for, if it were, then there might be the possibility of there being no cognition of the Relationship at all.