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of clay and it is not made of gold.
3. What is its own place or Syakshetra ? The ground where the jar is found is its own place Svakshetra and every other place is its. Parakshetra.
4. What is its own time or Svakala ? The Svakala of the Jar is the duration of the time in which it exists intact. Its past when it was a mass of clay and its future when it will be a heap of broken shells will be its Parakala.
Thus a thing is affirmed in its four-fold self-relation, form, matter, place and time and is denied in its fourfold alien relation.
Now the Svarupa etc. are determined with reference to the four-old other relation of Pararupa etc , The self-relation apart from the other relation has no mearing The essential nature of a thing not only implies its Svarupa but differentiates it from Pararupa. In experience we not only perceive a thing but perceive it as distmct from other things. A jar is seen not merely as a Jar but as a thing distinct from a cloth lying by its side. Without this distinction there can be no perception of the Jar at all. The very process of self-assertion implies differentiation from non-self. Asta implies self-assertion. Nosti implies alien exclusion. A thing not only asserts its own individuality, but also discards anything alien
