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Chapter IV
कार्यकारणनानात्वं गुणगुण्यन्यतापि च। सामान्यतद्वदन्यत्वं चैकान्तेन यदीष्यते ॥61॥ kārya-kāraṇa-nānātvaṁ guna-gunyanyatāpi cha, sāmānya-tad-vadanyatvam chaikāntena yadișyate.
61. If those holding Ekānta view, accept difference of cause and effect or qualities and things possessed of the same and difference between common existence, and dravya, guna and karma. (The answer is given in the next verse).
COMMENTARY
In this chapter the Ekānta view of the followers of Nyāya and Vaiseșika schools of philosophy, viz., everything is separate from everything else, is refuted.
The view opposed to Jainism is laid down in this verse. The Ekānta view is that a kārya (pitcher) etc. is different from its causes (e.g., its upādāna cause, clay). Again the quality, e.g., form etc. (guna) of a thing is different from the substance having the same (gunin). Further, the existence features common to one genus (sāmānya) are different from those possessing it (tadvat, viz., cow etc.). If this view is held, the result will be faulty as shown in the next verse.
एकस्यानेकवृत्तिर्न भागाभावाद् बहूनि वा। nificare are trei stata le 116211 ekasyāneka-výttirna bhāgābhāvād bahūni vā, bhāgitvād vāsya naikatvaṁ doạo vịtteranārhate.
62. In the non-Jaina view the fault would be-one would not have application to many as there will be no
