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CRITIQUE OF AN AUTHORITY
Verse 75
धर्मधर्म्यविनाभावः सिद्धयत्यन्योन्यवीक्षया ।
न स्वरूपं स्वतो ह्येतत् कारकज्ञापकाङ्गवत् ।।७५।।
The fact that an entity and its attribute require each other just proves that the two invariably go togather, but it does not prove that the nature of each of them is exhausted by the fact that it requires the other. For certainly each of them has got a nature of its own. All this should be understood on the analogy of the factors operative in production-situation, or of those operative in knowledge-situation (which factors doubtless require one another but each of which is possessed of an independent nature of its own). (75)
न केवलं सामान्यविशेषयोः स्वलक्षणम् अपेक्षितपरस्पराविनाभावलक्षणं स्वतः - सिद्धलक्षणम्, अपि तु धर्मधर्मिणोरपि, कर्तृकर्मबोध्यबोधकवत् ॥७५॥
।। इत्याप्तमीमांसाभाष्यरूपायाम् अष्टशत्यां पञ्चमः परिच्छेदः ॥ Comment on verse 75
In this verse Samantabhadra explicitly formulates the Jaina position on the question of entity-attribute relationship. He rightly submits that the concepts 'entity' and 'attribute' (better known as 'substance' and 'mode') are correlate, for in his system of ontology both of them and they alone - are required to explain the nature of an empirical phenomenon. But his implied suggestion that the concepts chosen in this connection by the empiricist Buddhist and the NyāyaVaiseṣika are hopelessly inadequate seems unjustified.
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