Anekantavada

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: Atmanand Jain Sabha

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(1) sweet taste and (2) yellow colour. In a manner, these two attributes of sweet taste and yellow colour may be identified. (i) They are contemporaneous in time; the mango-fruit is sweet, when it puts on an yellow colour. (ii) The sweet taste of the mango is an attribute just as its yellow colour, therefore the two phenomena of sweetness and yellow colour in a mango are identical, so far as their nature is concerned. (iii) Sweet taste inheres in the same mango, in which the yellow colour is also found; thus, with respect to their basic substance, the two attributes under consideration may be looked upon as identical. (iv) Sweet taste is related to the mango-fruit, being in some sense inseparable from it; its yellow colour also is related to it in the very same manner; accordingly, the sweet taste and the yellow colour in the mangofruit may be identified in respect of their relationship to the substance. (v) Sweet taste affects the mango-fruit and modifies it in its own way; its yellow colour also affects it in a similar manner; hence the two attributes are identifiable from the view-point of their manner of modifying. (vi) The sweet taste exists in the same part of the mango-fruit in which there is the yellow colour; accordingly, the two features of sweetness