Aptamimansa Critique of an Authority Bhasya

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

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SECTION IV DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY
61-66 Verses कार्यकारणनानात्वं गुणगुण्यन्यताऽपि च । सामान्यतद्वदन्यत्वं चैकान्तेन यदीष्यते॥६१॥
If one maintains that an effect is absolutely distinct from its cause, a quality is absolutely distinct from the thing qualified by this quality, and a universal is absolutely distinct from the particular possessing this universal (one would be faced with the following difficulties). (61)
अथ चतुर्थ: परिच्छेदः अवयवगुणसामान्यतद्वतां व्यतिरेकैकान्तम् आशङ्क्य प्रतिविधत्ते ॥६१॥
एकस्यानेकवृत्तिर्न भागाभावाद् बहूनि वा। भागित्वाद् वाऽस्य नैकत्वं दोषो वृत्तेरनार्हते ॥२॥
An effect cannot reside in what are many, for it is possessed of no parts; alternatively, one would be forced to concede that this effect is itself of the form of a number of entities (which is an undesirable contingency). Or one might concede that this effect is possessed of parts, but then it will no more be a single entity (which again is an undesirable contingency). These are the difficulties that a certain non-Jaina position has to face on the question of the mode of an effect's residence in its cause. (62)
Note : It should be useful to remember that 'effect' here stands for a composite body and 'cause' for the component-parts of this body.