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underlying substance gold: from our daily intercourse. there will be a great confusion in our daily experience. The truth is that exclusive acceptance of the general only or particular only would land us into utter confusion. Our experience tells us that in a language no words are competent enough to signify merely the general or merely the particular, They are mutually interdependent. Though, therefore, they are separate from each other they are also identical. 1-2,
The following two verses explain the meaning of the word Pratītya-vacana that is words that are considered as authentic :- :
पच्चुप्पन्नं भावं विगयभविस्सेहिं जं सम्मपणेइ । एयं पडुच्चवयणं दव्वंतरणिस्सियं जं च ॥३॥ दव्वं जहा परिणयं तहेव अत्थि त्ति तम्मि समयम्मि । विगयभविस्सेहि उ पज्जएहिं भयणा विभयणा वा ॥४।
(3) Those words that connect the present change of a thing with its past and future changes and those words that synthetişe the general running through all the individuals are words that are reliable or authentic.
(4) Because although the present change of a certain thing apparently has not any relation to the changes of that thing in past
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