Aptamimansa Critique of an Authority Bhasya

Author(s): Samantbhadracharya, Akalankadev, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Jagruti Dilip Sheth Dr

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CRITIQUE OF AN AUTHORITY न सामान्यात्मनोदेति न व्येति व्यक्तमन्वयात् । व्येत्युदेति विशेषात् ते सहैकत्रोदयादि सत् ॥५७॥
An entity neither originates nor ceases so far as its universal character is concerned, for the continuation of this universal character is an obvious fact; on the other hand, an entity originates as well as ceases so far as its particular characters are concerned. This is how on your position a real entity is characterized by the co-existence of origination etc. (.e. of origination, cessation, continuation). (57)
Note: That is to say, 'universal character' is equivalent to the 'substance-aspect of an empirical phenomenon, 'particular character
its 'mode-aspect'. However, it is more usual to speak of 'universal character' and 'particular character in the case of two (or more) independent empirical phenomena each of which has got its own 'substance-aspect' and its own 'mode-aspect'; in ordinary language these empirical phenomena are said to possess mutual similarity of some sort or other, a similarity that is technically assigned the title ‘universal character' (or just ‘universal').
चलाचलात्मकं वस्तु, कृतकाकृतकात्मकत्वात् । न हि चेतनस्य अन्यस्य वा सर्वथोत्पत्तिः, सदादिसामान्यस्वभावेन सत एवातिशयान्तरोपलम्भात् घटवत् कथञ्चित् उत्पादविगमात्मकत्वात् इत्यादि योज्यम् ॥५७।।
कार्योत्पादः क्षयो हेतोर्नियमाल्लक्षणात् पृथक् । न तौ जात्याद्यवस्थानादनपेक्षाः खपुष्पवत् ॥५८॥
The production of an effect is the same thing as the destruction of the cause of this effect, for the two (i.e. the production of an effect and the destruction of the cause of this effect) are invariably found to go togather even if they are mutually distinguishable through their respective definitions. And inasmuch as there is here a continuation of the concerned universal character etc. (i.e. of the concerned universal character, the concerned numerical identity, the concerned inherent capacity, and so forth) the two are not independent of each other, an