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Verse 47
not following your doctrine are self-contradictory.
Jain, Vijay K. (2015), “Ācārya Samantabhadra's Svayambhūstotra”, p. 31-33.
Jaina logicians describe every fact of reality according to four different aspects: its substance (dravya), space of its existence (kşetra), time of its existence (kāla), and its nature (bhāva). Every object admits of a fourfold affirmative predication (svacatusțaya) with reference to its own substance (svadravya), own space (svakşetra), own time (svakāla), and own nature (svabhāva). Simultaneously a fourfold negative predication is implied with reference to other substance (paradravya), other space (parakşetra), other time (parakāla), and other nature (parabhāva). The substance of an object not only implies its svadravya but differentiates it from paradravya. It becomes logically necessary to locate a negation for every affirmation and vice-versa. We must not only perceive a thing but also perceive it as distinct from other things. Without this distinction there cannot be true and clear perception of an object. When the soul, on the availability of suitable means, admits of the fourfold affirmation with respect to svadravya, svakşetra, svakāla, and svabhāva, it also admits of the fourfold negation with respect to paradravya, parakşetra, parakāla, and parabhāva.
Excerpted from: Jain, Vijay K. (2014), “Acārya Pujyapāda's Istopadeśa –
The Golden Discourse", p. 6.
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