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Jaina-Tarka-Bhāṣā of the image of Indra and the image-symbol in the form of a particular shape, have the relationship of identity with the real, the mode of Indra, and as such are more closely related with it in comparison to the name which is related (only) through the relationship of the indicated and the indicator. Some say that the generic and the empirical accept three symbols except the image; this view is not free from faults, because it must be accepted that either the generic or the non-generic or the non-distinguished in general, accept the image, because the acceptance of the image is not prohibited in other substantial point of view except in the generic and the empirical. (Now which of the above mentioned three types of the non-distinguished accepts the image ?). In the first case, the generic (also) will have to accept the image, because the generic point of view is not different from the generic non-distinguished. In the case of the second (alternative), the empirical will have to accept that (i. e. the image) because that (i. c. the non-generic) is not different from the empirical point of view. And in the case of the third (alternative), even if accepting that the generic and the empirical separately do not accept the image; it would be difficult to avoid its acceptance jointly by them in the form of the full non-distinguished point of view, because each one of them (the generic and the empirical) cognise one part each of the undivided non-distinguished. Moreover, because the generic and the empirical are included in the non-distinguished, therefore, its attitude should also be included in them, because though the scope, characterised as the characteristic of both of them (viz. the general and the particular) cannot be included in one of them, yet the characteristic of one, viz. the image-symbol, can be easily held to be included, because the division of the generic and the empirical can be justified merely by accepting the general and the particular image-symbol-all this should be thought over in accordance with the scriptures. The objects, soul etc., should be symbolised by the symbols of names etc.
[3. The Symbols with reference to soul]. *9. That which, whether a soul or not, is named as soul,
