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point in space,--then the components in question would have to be regarded as occupying the same point in space; which would mean that they are essentially one and the same, being of the same nature.
" Why so?"
Beouse they are not differentiated because they exist without being differentiated from one another.-Otherwise, if they existed in their differentiated forms,-they could not pecupy the same point in space.
If the second alternative is accepted.- i.e. the Composite subsists in the second component in a different form,-then it means that one thing subsists in several components,-which would be inadmissible ; because, as a matter of fact, when one thing differs from another in its nature, it must be different from this latter; as difference in things is always of the nature of difference in their character (and form).-(610-611)
Uddyotakara has argued as follows: "All that the assertion The Composite subsists in the components' does is to mention two objects, ono of which is the substratum (container) and another the subsistent (the contained), which means that the latter becomes the subsistent,—this 'subsistence being of the nature of the contact called "Inherence . (Nyāyjavartika, 2. I. 32, page 217, Line 4, etc.).
The answer to this is provided in the following:
TEXT (612).
IF IT BE KELD TRAT THE SUBSISTENCE OF THE COMPOSITE IN THE COMPONENTS IS OF THE NATURE OF 'INHERENCE ', -THEN THE SAME CONSIDERATIONS AS ABOVE FOLLOW THAT IDEA
ALSO WITH EQUAL FORCE.-(612)
COMMENTARY.
Even in regard to this form of subsistence, the considerations just wged are applicable,--such as does it subsist in another component in the same form and character as in one component, or in some other form t'; they follow this idea also as if in ferocity, in anger-not tolerating the criticisms emanating from the poor intelligence of the other party--(612)
Hitherto the subsistence of the Composite has been discarded without recourse to the alternatives of its subsisting in whole or in part.-Now the author proceeds to show the way of discarding the same by recourse to the said alternatives, --in the manner indicated by actual exporience :
