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cold countries are “Paraksetra" for the fruitbearing mango-tree and in these Paraksetras or places where trees other than the mango-trees grow, the given mango-tree would not bear fruits.
(3) The given mango-tree bears fruits where it is in a particular state o. g. a healthy growth. The stunted growth which is found in the neigh. bouring trees or even in itself, when it was very young is the "Para-bhāva "., a feature other than what is essential to fruit-bearing and in respect of this Para-bhāva the given mangotree would not bear fruits.
(4) The time for bearing fruits for a mangotree is summer season; other seasons o. g. :winter etc, are accordingly "Para-kala " for it, so far as its fruit-bearing is concerned and the given mango-tree would not bear fruits in these Para-kalas.
Towards the close of the last chapter, we saw that affirmative limitations of time, place, essence and mood were not merely the subjective categories for our understanding an object but were inherent in the real nature of the object itself. In the second predication, in the same manner, the negative circumscriptions by time, space, substance and feature are to bo understood
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