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BOOK II: THE PRINCIPLE OF KNOWLEDGE
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(shakti) or in manifest-form (vyakti), it possesses only one pradesha.
The vertical conglomeration is not excluded from any substance, since the occurrence of all substances, in its connection with the three aspects (koti) (of time), possesses parts. But there is this difference: the vertical conglomeration of the substances other (than time) is a conglomeration whose occurrence is characterized by the timemoments; but the vertical conglomeration of time is a conglomeration of the time-moments themselves. For the occurrence of the other substances, being something else than the moment (samaya), has qualification by the moment; but the occurrence of time, being identical with the moment, has not that.
Now he refutes the opinion that the vertical conglomeration of the time-substance would lack identity (anvaya)79:
II.50. If origination and annihilation within one moment are found in any samaya, then that samaya (time-moment) is established in its own nature. (142)
The moment, indeed, is the occurrence-part of the time-object (samaya-padartha); in this moment we necessarily find the origination and annihilation of something, because, as arising through the traversing (vyatipata), of a material-atom, it is preceded by a cause.
Should these two belong to the occurrence-part, does this then happen simultaneously or successively? If simultaneously, there is no simultaneity, because two contradictory qualities of one thing cannot occur together. And, if successively, there is no succession, since there is no division (vibhaga) in the occurrence-part, owing to its fineness (sukshmatva).
Therefore we must necessarily search for something that has the occurrence (vrttimat); and this is the time-object. For of that, even in its single occurrence-part there is origination and annihilation; thus:
that same which, in regard to something which has occurrence is, in its occurrence-part, as qualified by that occurrence-part, origination is for the same object which has occurrence, in its occurrence-part as particularized by the precedent occurrence-part, annihilation. If thus origination and annihilation occur in the one occurrence
