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Aptamīmāmsā
knowledge; only their combination can be the subject of knowledge.]
Ācārya Samantabhadra's Svayambhūstotra:
यथैकशः कारकमर्थसिद्धये समीक्ष्य शेषं स्वसहायकारकम् । तथैव सामान्यविशेषमातृका नयास्तवेष्टा गुणमुख्यकल्पतः ॥
(13-2-62) Just as the two mutually supportive causes, the substantial cause (upādāna kartā) and the instrumental cause (nimitta kartā), result in the accomplishment of the desired objective, in the same way, your doctrine that postulates two kinds of attributes in a substance, general (sāmānya) and specific (višeşa), and ascertains its particular characteristic (naya) depending on what is kept as the primary consideration for the moment while keeping the other attributes in the background, not negating their existence in any way, accomplishes the desired objective.
Jain, Vijay K. (2015), “Ācārya Samantabhadra's Svayambhūstotra”, p. 87. Ācārya Māņikyanandi's Parīkņāmukha:
सामान्यविशेषात्मा तदर्थो विषयः ॥४-१॥ Only an object which has both, the general (sāmānya – dravya) and the specific (višeşa - paryāya) attributes can be the subject of valid knowledge.
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