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CHAPTER XI.
On Quality as a Category.
COMMENTARY
The Author now proceeds to discard the categories of Quality and the rest
TEXT (634).
BY TRE REJECTION OF 'SUBSTANCE', 'QUALITY', ACTION AND THE REST, WHICH ARE HELD TO BE SUBSISTENT IN SUBSTANCE,
ALL BECOME DISCARDED, -(634)
COMMENTARY
Quality Action, ending with Specific Individuality, become rejected by the rejection of Substance': because they subsist in this latter; and when the substratum is not there, the subsistents', which are dependent upon it, cannot be there.
Held to be, etc.-ie. held to be subsistent, either directly or indirectly in Substance. For instance, Quality and Action are held to be directly subsistent in Substance; as declared in the Sūtra (Vaishēşika)" Quality is subsistent in Substance, devoid of qualities, not the cause of Conjunction or Disjunction, independent";-which is the definition provided of Quality; similarly the definition of Action provided is-" It subsists in one Substance, is devoid of Qualities, the independent cause of Conjunctions and Disjunctions". The term kadravyam 'in this last Sutra means subsisting in one Substance'. -Qualities, on the other hand subsist, some of them, in several Substances : e.g. Conjunction, Disjunction and the rest. The Genus and the Specific Individuality subsist, some of them, in Substances only; e.g. such genuses, as 'Earth and the like, while such genuses as Quality', 'Action and so forth subsist in Qualities and Actions related to Substances.-The Summum genus-which is 'Being subsists in the three categories beginning with Substance' i.e. in Substance, Quality and Action]
Thus, when Substance has been rejected, Quality and the rest become rejected without any effort. What is meant by this is that the final upshot of the examination of the other Categories has been achieved under the examination of Substance itself.-(634)
Opponent:"If that is so, then the Denial of Subsistence should be pro. ceeded with separately."
Answer:
