Book Title: First Principal of the Jaina Philosophy
Author(s): Hirachand Liladhar Zaveri
Publisher: Jaina Vividh Sahitya Shastramala
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THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF
both what it is and what it is not, the word avaktavyah is inserted in the statement.
Sixth way of speaking: syannastyeva syadavaktavyah (ghatah). In this mode of speaking it is what the thing [jar, for instance) is not that finds expression. And the reason for adding avaktavyah is that when we are proving what a thing [jar, for instance] is not, we wish to mention that the thing has at the same time positive attributes (is-ness), but that it is impossible to give them expression while we are proving what the thing is not.
Seventh way of speaking : syadastyeva syannastyeva syadavaktavyah (ghatah). In the seventh mode of speaking one expresses first what the thing [jar, for instance) is, and then what it is not; and one adds that it is impossible to express both what it is and what it is not simultaneously. When one is talking of the attributes of a thing there is existence, and when one is talking of the attributes of another thing there is non-existence in the first thing, but it is impossible to express them both at the same time.
There may be many things that may be said of a thing (jar, for instance] besides its present and absent attributes; but whatever is predicated of a subject may always be predicated in these seven possible ways. The possible ways of speaking about a thing's attributes will always be seven in number.'
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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