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III. 23, 21 ) CHAPTER III
[ 133 Moreover it is also not the case that difference is simply due to extrinsic source ; because that very thing is also instrumental. Therefore that difference is neither exclusively extrinsic, nor intrinsic but both, 16-22.
The following verses analyse the difference of substance and quality as advanced by the persons holding the view of absolute difference and prove that the definitions of substance and quality, forwarded by him do not hold much water.
दव्वस्स ठिई जम्म-विगमा य गुणलक्खणं ति वत्व्वं । एवं सइ केवलिणो जुज्जइ तं णो उ दवियस्स ।। २३ ॥ दव्वत्थंतरभूया मुत्ताऽमुत्ता य ते गुणा होज्ज। जइ मुत्ता परमाणू णत्थि अमुत्तेसु अग्गहणं ॥ २४॥
(23) According to the view of absolute difference between substance and quality a substance is that which has a permanent state and a quality is that which is produced and which perishes. But the author objects to these definitions of substance and quality and says that the definitions would have been proper if substance would have been altogether different from quality and if quality would have been absolutely
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