On Upadhi

Author(s): Hidenori Kitagawa
Publisher: Hidenori Kitagawa

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every pot is the locus of pot-ness.
Thus the meaning of the words "avacchedaka" and "avacchinna" being explained, let us now examine the meaning of the second definition as a whole, i.e. " yad-dharmavacchinna-sädhya-vyāpakatve sati tad-dharmavacchinna-sādhanavyāpakah upādhih (That which is a pervader of the sādhya (-dharma] limited by dharna X and nonpervader of the sādhana (-dharma] limited by the same dharma X is the upādhi).” As is already said, when the argument “Wind is perceptible, because it is a substratum of a perceptible touch” is set forth, perceptibility (pratyaksatva) is the sādhya-dharma and the nature of being a substratum of a perceptible touch (pratyakşasparsâśrayatva) is the sādhana-dharma'. So, if we choose externalsubstance-ness (bahir-dravyatva, the nature of being an external substance) for dharma X, the second definition may be rewritten as follows:
bahir-dravyatvâvacchinna-pratyaksatva-vyāpakatve sati bahir . dravyatvávacchinna - pratyakşasparsâśrayatvâvyā. pakaḥ upādhih (That which is a prevader of the perceptibility limited by external-substance-ness and non-pervader of the nature of being a substratum of a perceptible touch
limited by external-substance-ness is the upādhi.). Now, the nature of having a manifested color satisfies this condition. For everything that possesses the perceptibility limited by externa substance-ness possesses the nature of having a manifested color, but everything that possesses the nature of being a substratum of a perceptible touch limited by external-substance-ness does not necessarily possess the nature of having a manifested color. How? The perceptibility limited by external-substance-ness is the percepti
9. Here again, to say that something has the nature of being a substratum of a perceptible touch is to say that it has a perceptible touch. The readers may, therefore, rewrite all the phrases "the nature of being a substratum of a perceptible touch" by “a perceptible touch," if simplicity is preferred. Cf. foot-note 7.