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This argument is levelled to the ground by RAZ with one stroke of counter-argument: he says that in the above illustration there can never be inference in-as-much-as the inference of the running away of a man by reason (EC) of the existence of a lion is a faulty 8gala, since the reason (EC) is not such as would invariably and inevitably prove Arz (here the running away of the pious man ); for if a person is sent on a certain errand by his master, he will have to stay in or go to a place frequented even by a lion. But the suggested sense occurs in spite of a faulty 378ra or even no 3112 at all.
Inference therefore, can never take the place of the process of suggestion.
_____Now to return to our text, अत्ता एत्थ तु मज्जइ etc. the primary sense is prohibitory but the suggested sense is permissive. The verse means:-"My mother in-law will lie down here, while I will be here. Oh traveller ! mark ye well in broad day-light! Otherwise, being night-blind you will perhaps flounder on our beds !!
This is addressed to a traveller by a wanton woman whose husband had been away and who had only an old mother-in-law with her. “Do not stumble on our beds ”-is the prohibitory primary sense, but "mark our respective beds, so that you can approach my bed, at night straight-way” is the suggested sense.
Sometimes the primary sense is permissive and the suggested sense suggests another permissive sense. Thus in the verse “TESTAI etc.” meaning “this cursed night is pitchy dark; to-day my husband has gone away; the whole house is lonely, ye neighbour ! kindly do wake up, so that we may not be robbed by thieves !”
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