First Principal of the Jaina Philosophy

Author(s): Hirachand Liladhar Zaveri
Publisher: Jaina Vividh Sahitya Shastramala

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THE JAIN PHILOSOPHY
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the same moment of what the thing is and what the thing is not ;
5. In the fifth, while asserting the inexpressibility at one and the same moment of what a thing is and what it is not, yet 'what it is' is taken into consideration;
6. In the sixth, with the assertion of the inexpressibility at one and the same moment of those qualities which are present in the thing, and of those qualities which are absent in the thing, the qualities which are absent in the part in question are taken as
the subject of consideration; 1 7. In the seventh, with the assertion of the in
expressibility at one and the same moment of the qualities which do and of those which do not exist in the thing, the present and absent qualities of the part in question are predicated consecutively.
Syat is the third person singular of the potential mood of the verb as, to be. Here it is used as an adverb, and means 'in a certain sense.'
Let us take an example of the first way of making a statement about a thing : syadastyeva ghatah. Such statements can be scrutinized (examined) from four points of view, viz dravya (the substance of which the thing consists), kshetra (the place where the thing is),