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A relation' is 'conjunctive'' (saryoga-sambandha) when the relata are 'separable' (yutasiddha), and 'necessary' or 'intimate' (samavāya-sambandha) when they are'inseparable' (ayutasiddha)".
The strict non-admission of any internality between even the 'inseparable' relata under samavāya is a character
1. dvividhaḥ sambandhaḥ samyogaḥ samavāyaśceti / TB, Pt. I, p. 5. 2. For conjunction as a 'transient' connection and its threefold
distinction, see Mis. Es., Vol. II, p. 302, and BP with SMV, käs.
114-116. 3. The relata are separable' (yuta) in the sense that they were
separate before being conjoined, e.g., the hand and the book (hasta-pustaka-samyoga); aprāptayos tu yā praptiḥ saiva saryoga iritaḥ / BP, kā. 114, and they can be again separated at our will. Conjunction is, therefore, a purely adventitious or external relation. Necessary' or 'intimate relation seems to be a more satisfactory translation of samavāya than 'inherence', although the latter is more widely current, for inherence' is suggestive of an internal character, whereas samavāya is, as indicated in the next paragraph, an external, though inseparable (aprthak
siddha) relation. 5. tatrāyutasiddhayoḥ sambandhaḥ samavāyaḥ / TB, Pt. I, p. 5. Also see SDA, p. 278, kā. 66, and TRD thereon.
For the meanings of'ayutasiddha' and 'yutasiddha' as well as for the gradual widening of the scope of the meaning of
ayutasiddha' from its original and narrow application to the relation of the container and the contained (adhārādheyabhāva)
to a five-fold one, see PDS, with NK, pp. 35-36. 6. Internality should mean, according to some critics, identity
(ätmarūpa) of the relation with the relata. This would mean that the relation would be a constitutive or 'intrinsic' element in the being of the relata. (Cf. Bradley : "But every relation, as we have learnt, essentially penetrates into the being of its terms, and, in this sense, is intrinsical; in other words, every relation must be a relation of content." AR, p. 347. Also cf. "We should then have to ask if, in the end, every possible relation does not involve a something IN
