Book Title: Anekantavada
Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Sabha

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________________ 102 (2) That to apprehend it as such, is also possible; ( 3 ) But that owing to the incapacity of words to express both existence and non-exist. ence in a pitcher, language is unable in express this aspect of the pitcher as a reality i, o, the aspect of its existence-cum-non-existence. The result is the fourth Bhanga,-the pitcher is inexpressible. In the same manner, it is possible for a mango-tree to be fruit-bearing at some time and to be not-fruit-bearing at other time; it is possible for it to contain simultaneously the element of fruit-beaning-under-certain-conditions and the element of not-fruit-bearingunder-certain-conditions. A conception of the mango-tree at once possessed of those two positive and negative characters is also possible. But language cannot supply any word which would simultaneously signify these two possibi. lities in a mango-tree and we are led to confess that the mango-tree is 'inexpressible '. I. As regards the first of the above three assertions,-that it is possible for a real to be both positive and negative, nay, that a real by its very nature is both positive and negative, Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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