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Dravya (substance), Guņa (attributes), and others or into past, present or future, then alone the province of Paryāyástika begins. That is to say, Paryāyāstika concerns itself solely with the difference or division of things. 29
The following verse deals with difference in its minute details.
जो उण समासो च्चिय वंजणणिअओ य अत्थणिो य । अत्थगो य अभिपणे भइयव्वा वंजणवियप्पो ॥३०॥
Moreover, difference is of two kinds :-(i) difference depending on words and (ii) difference not dependent on words that is to say conditioned by meaning. A division as regards the object itself admits of no further differences, while divisions from the point of view of words are both divisible and not divisible.
Every object has the double aspect of unity and difference. When on this unity (which is inherent in every object) we begin to super-impose differences that are due to time and space-through minute analysis these differences infinitely multiply. The more the minute analysis, the more the differences. All those differences, gathering volume at every step, like a
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