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these, flesh-eating, etc., is greatly fruitful, bearing the fruit of heaven and beatification: and not also practise of them. That is the meaning. This is why in another place it is read -
"Whoso for 100 years should offer year by year a Horse Sacrifice, And whoso should not eat flesh, equal would be the fruit of the two". "The destiny of one who has passed a single night in chastity
Cannot be attained, O Yudhisthira, by a thousand sacrifices". 17) (189) But as regards wine-drinking it is useless to quote sūtras because that is denounced by all. The other matters of this sort how ever do the sham-wise heretics deserve to know? So a truce to excess-disquisition.
Now what are these 'seven nuances' ? 18) And what is this distinction of expression ? It is stated: When in regard to a single entity, soul, etc., in virtue of an enquiry relating to attributes, existence, etc., severally without contradiction, with avoidance of violence to perception, etc., and made with all-round examination of affirmation and negation, separate and in combination, there is a disposition of statement in the seven modes to be mentioned, and adorned with the term quodammodo, (it) is proclaimed the seven-nuance-system'. As follows: 1. Quodammodo everything simply is'; this is the first 'nuance', with the notion of affirmation; 2. Quodammodo everything simply is not' is the second, with the notion of regation; 3. Quodammodo it simply is, quodammodo it simply is not', with the notion of successive affirmation and negation is the third ; 4. Quodammodo it is simply unutterable, with the notion of simultane ous affirmation and negation, is the fourth; 5. Quodammodo it simply is, quodammodo it is simply unutterable', with the notion of affirmation and the notion of simultaneous affirmation and negation, is the fifth; 6. Quodammodo it simply is not, quodammodo it is unutterable', with the notion of negation, and the notion of simultaneous affirmation and negation, is the sixth; 7. Quodammodo it simply is, quodammodo it simply is not, quodammodo it is simply unutterable', with the successive notions of affirmation and negation, and the notion of simultaneous affirmation and negation, is the seventh.
Here, quodammodo, 'in a way', with the form of its own substance, place, time and being (bhāva) everything, vessel, etc., simply is, not with the form of other substance, place, time and being. As thus: the vessel, as in substance earthen, is, - not with an aqueous form, etc.; in respect of place, as being of Patalīputra, not as being of Kanyakubja etc.; in respect of time, as being of the hot season, not as being of the spring, etc., season; in respect of being, as being black, not as being red, etc. - otherwise, through incidence of having another colour there is the consequence of loss of own colour. And the 'simply' has here been inserted for the purpose of excluding a sense not approved in the 'nuance'; otherwise there would result in this expression an equivalence to what is not stated: from non-mention of its own meaning as determinate. As has been said - (190)
"In a statement 'simply' is to be put just for avoidance of a meaning not intended;
Because otherwise it (the statement) is in some cases equivalent to what is not said"1"). Nevertheless, if only so much as 'the vessel simply is' were adopted, since with the vessel existent also as a pillar, etc., an existence under every aspect results, there would be no
17) Manu-smrti, V. 53 (M. L.).
18) Expounded in what follows. Professor Dhruva points out (notes, p. 243) that the first passage, as far as "seven-nuance-system", is based on Ratnākara's comm. on Pramana-naya-tattväloka, IV. 14, and the remainder of ch. XXIII is mostly from IV 15-16, and III 43--45 of the same.
19) From Tattvärtha-sloka-vārttika, I. 6. 53 (M. L.).
