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A NOTE ON MAHĀBHĀŞYA II 366.26 Yoga idea of substance". One can definitely go a step further and-in view of the internal evidence of the M. as well as of the evidence discussed in paragraphs 2 and 3-simply state that Patañjali has in this case, too, taken recourse to a particular element of the Sāmkhya doctrine in order to offer an alternative solution to a particular grammatical problem. Plausible as these conclusions are by themselves, the clear testimony of a Sāmkhya text for this definition of dravya would, nevertheless, be highly welcome. Although I am unfortunately not able to adduce an exact parallel from any of the extant sources, I should like to draw attention to a passage in the Yuktidipikā which, I think, strikingly confirms this peculiar concept of dravya. At the very beginning of the third Āhnika there is a rather long section devoted to defending the satkāryavāda, which is taught in the next Kärikā, viz. 9. The opponent is clearly an adherent of Vaišeșika who does not, however, confine himself to attacking the Samkhya theory, but deems it also necessary to deal in anticipation as it were with eventual counterarguments brought forward against his own asatkäryavāda. One of these counterarguments is that the product is not, because it is not cognized, asat before its origination. This is refuted by an argument which runs thus (48. 29-32):
kriyāguņavyapadeśāsambhavāt / yad dhi pratyakşato nopalabhyate tat kriyayāstiti samsūcyate / yathā harmyāvasthitānām trnānām udvahanād vāyuḥ, gunena yathā mālatilatā gandhena, vyapadeśena vā kāryādinā yathendriyāni / na tu prāg utpatteḥ kāryasya kriyāgunavyapadeśasam
bhavaḥ / tasmād asat kāryam /. In the course of his refutation the defendant comes back to this topic in order to reject the opponent's statement in the following manner (51. 14-18):
yat tüktam kriyāgunavyapadeśāsambhavād anumānābhāva iti tad anupapannam / kasmāt / prthaktvānabhyupagamāt / kāryakāraṇaprthaktvavādinas tatkriyāguņānām pythaktvam anumātum yuktam ity atas ta (ntva). vasthāne pațakriyāguna-(read: ogunā-) grahaņād anumānābhāva ity ayam upälambhaḥ sāvakāśaḥ syāt / asmākam tu kāraṇamätrasyaiva samghātād äkārāntaraparigrahād vā kriyāguņānām pracitir vyaktiviśeşo bhavatiti bruvatām adoṣaḥ/.
