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Toy permanent on the ground that it is sa 1, cease to make Prakratis also permanent i. e. synonymous with Purush from whom they are so fictitiously distinguished ? Again, the denial of all non-being by the Bhavaikantis means that the four kinds of Abhavas are unreal. But by denying, 0. g., pragabhava and pradhransabhava i. e. the absence of an effect before its production, and after its destruction, everything becomes eternally existing, which means that no change or evolution is possible in the world. Similarly the denial of Anyonyabhava or the absencə of a thing at a place where another thing exists, would result in reducing all the diversity in the universe to blank uniformity. Lastly the denial of Atyantabhava i. e. the nonbeing of one thing what its radical opposite is would lead to the confusion of every-thing with everything else.
We therefore discard this form of monism and take up the next that follows to see if it
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