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instance, a pillar and a jar are different from each other. For both have got different characteristics. Similarly the means to know a substance are diffrent from the means to know its attributes. For a substance such as a jar is perceived by means of two senses, namely the sense of touch and the sense of seeing and the perception by means of these senses has got for its object one and the same thing simultaneous in our mind, But the attributes of taste, smell and others are peceived by means of only one sense each and their perception is based upon one sense only. Moreover the characteristics of both the substance and its attributes are different. A substance is a repository of qualitien and movement. While attributes whicb reside in a substance, are in themselves attributeless and motionless. It is, therefore, proper to regard the attributes that reside in a substance as differert from the substance itself. 8
With a view to refute this view.point the author in the following verse first of all tries to establish an identity between attributes and transformations of a substance :
दूरे ता अण्णत्तं गुणसहे चेव ताव पारिच्छं। किं पज्जवाहिओ होज्ज पज्जवे चेवगुणसण्णा ॥९॥ दो उण णया भगवया दव्वट्ठिय-पज्जवट्ठिया नियया । got a luate jugement fet usstat 11 11 जं च पुण अरिया तेसु तेसु सुत्तेसु गोयमाईणं ।
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