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rather you ), and doubts may even be entertained now-a-days as to whether the world was indeed brought forth by the Creator.
( 28 ) Is it possible to explain ( under application of the principles of Vaišeșika Logic ) how your Renown has spread as far as to the cardinal points ?
( According to Vaišeșika Logic, the above proposition would mean that conjunction ( samyoga ) has taken place between your Renown and the cardinal points. Conjunction can take place between two substances ( dravya) only?09. The cardinal points (dis) do fall under the category of substance'10, it is true; but Renown, being a species of śabda, would be a quality". Does therefore your Renown, though being a quality, play the part of a substance, or, in other words, is it to be assumed that in this case, though the difference between substance and quality as separate categories ( padārtha ) is one of the main axioms of Vaiseșika ( Logic"12 ) quality becomes substance in fact ?
(If this is conceded for argument's sake, it leads to another embarrassment. For since Renown is produced by qualities ( in the conventional sense, such as liberality, valour, sagacity ), it would have to be admitted that in this case ) substance is produced by quality, ( though Vaiseșika Logic teaches that a substance can only be produced by a substance, but never by a quality 113. Consequently your Renown cannot be defined as a substance !)
(Let it therefore be assumed to be a quality. As the conjunction ( samyoga ) of the latter with the cardinal points has taken place, and this presupposes that your Renown has performed the action of moving\14 there, it follows that the action of moving must have inhered in a quality. According to Vaišeșika Logic, action can inhere in a substance only, but never in a quality115. ( Therefore ) an action inhering in a quality would likewise be objectionable ( vişama) logically ( anunayam), as it could have no initiative ( ārambha) (i.e., it could not take place 16 (pun: it would be beginningless, i.e., eternal, though action is characterised in
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