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Touching upon the absence of any contradiction in the co-existence of unity and diversity in the same object, Kumārila observes elsewhere : “As in the case of the variegated colour, we can optionally fix upon any one of the various colours (without any contradiction), simply because the object (colour) is of a variegated character-so, in the same manner we could fix upon the diversity or unity...”
Finally, it is significant to note that Kumārila recommends a'middle position' (madhyasthatā) between the two extremes
na nāśena vină soko notpädena vina sukham /
sthityā vina na madhyasthyam..........// Cf. the following kā. of Samantabhadra :
ghatamaulisuvarņārthi nāśotpadasthitişvayam /
śokapramodamadhyasthyam jano yāti sahetukam 11 AMS, kā. 59. See also VVas and ASA thereon.
In another kā., following the above one, the same idea is illustrated by a different analogy. Ibid., pp. 30-31.
Elucidating the word "trayātmakam" in kā. 22 cited above Parthasarathimiśra writes: trayātmakam utpattisthitivināśadharmātmakam-ityarthah / NR on kā. 22, p. 619, and Bhattaputra Jayamiśra also adds, in the same context : tasmād bhangotpadasthityātmakarūpatrayayuktañ vastu pratiyate / SVTJ, p. 84.
Mallişeņa draws our attention, in this connection, to Patañjali's theory of nityānitya (the abiding and the changing) nature of substance (dharmi), and its (dharminah) threefold modification (trividhaḥ khalvayam dharmiņaḥ pariņāmo dharmalaksaņāvasthārūpaḥ), and, points out how the latter (parināma) is accepted to be "at once distinct from and identical with the former" (dharma). Vide SM (text), p. 16, and ibid. (notes), p. 46, where Dhruva gives an extract from Vyāsa-Bhasya on
Patañjali-Sūtra, III. 13. 1. SVJha, p. 292. The kā. is as follows:
citratvād vastuno'pyevam bhedābhedāvadhāraṇam /
sāmānyāṁse tu niskrsya bhedo yena prasādhyate //
Pārthasarathimiśra, commenting on this kā., observes : nānāvarne hi vastuni ya eva varno niskȚşya darśayitum işyate sa eva sakyo darśayitum, evañ nānārūpe vastunisarvasya bhedābhedādeh sambhava iti / MSV, p. 561, NR on ka. 58.
