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viz., "One hundred elephants are standing at the tip of the finger", will have to be accepted. For examples of all kinds of fallacies, Samuddeśa VI of Parinkṣāmukha1 may be referred to. Even things seen in a dream will be true in following the Ekanta view of the reality of everything external.
विरोधान्नोभयैकात्म्यं स्याद्वादन्यायविद्विषाम् । अवाच्यतैकान्तेऽप्युक्तिर्नावाच्यमिति युज्यते ॥82॥ virodhānnobhayaikātmyaṁ syādvāda-nyāya
vidviṣām,
avāchyataikānte'pyuktirnāvāchyamiti yujyate.
82. Translation in verse 13.
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COMMENTARY
The ekanta view of the simultaneous reality of both internal thoughts and external objects is untenable. The person holding such a view cannot also escape by saying that he is unable to describe it.
भावप्रमेयापेक्षायां प्रमाणाभासनिह्नवः ।
बहिः प्रमेयापेक्षायां प्रमाणं तन्निभं च ते ॥88॥
bhāvaprameyāpekṣāyāṁ pramāṇābhāsa-nihnavaḥ, bahiḥ prameyāpekṣāyāṁ pramāṇaṁ tannibham cha
te.
83. In accepting knowledge as the only object, fallacy is denied. Your pramāna and pramāṇābhāsa (fallacy) deal with external objects only.
COMMENTARY
According to the Buddhists, rūpaskandha comprises the senses and their objects, colour etc. The sense organs 1. Sacred Books of the Jainas, vol XI
