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TATIVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XL.
justify tho conviction that it is something altogether different. Conse. quently t o is nothing apart from Colour, etc., that could be regarded as the object of tiut notion; and hence the Reason is one that is unproven'.
The Proposition (or Conclusion) also is contrary to Perception; inas. much as the large and other dituensions, which are meant to be perceptible, are nover perceived apart from Colour and other things.
Thus then, why cannot the Dimension of things bo regarded as of tho santa nature as Colour and the rest, but based on this difference, turning towards a direction different from that towards which other things turn? In so doing, the assumption of unseen and unreasonable things is avoided. This is what is implied by the particle éva' in the Text.-Thus when several Colour, etc. are seen or touched, as turning towards the same direction, people come to speak of it is long'; and when the Colour, etc. seen or touched are fewer as compared to the former, they speak of it as 'short'. The same explanation may be applied to the notion of 'Large', etc. also.
As in the case of the denial of Colour and other qualities, so here also, the denial of the 'Largo' and other dimensions may be set forth, on the basis of the altornatives-is it one or many :-(647)
Further, inasmuch as the Reason adduced is found ovon where the Probandum (character to be proved) is ahsent, its 'inconclusiveness becomes all the more pronounced. This is shown in the following
TEXTS (648-649). A Line of Mansions IS CONCEIVED OF AS 'LARGE'; AND YET NO DIMEN
SION 'COMMENSURATE WITH THE FORME OT THE LINE IS ASSUMED, IF IT BE SAID THAT IT IS SPOREN OF AS SUCH ON THE BASIS OF THE QUALITY SUBSISTING IN THE SAME OBJECT (MANSION), -THEN THE ANSWER IS THAT NEITHER'LARGENESS NOR'LENGTH ' IS EVER MEANT TO BELONG
TO MANSIONS.—(648-649)
COMMENTARY Even where the Largeness' as conceived by you is not present, in such things, for instance, as the Line of Mansions--the notion of largeness" is found to appear.
It will not be right to assert that "The largenes& subsists in the same Houses wherein the quality of line' (being in a line) is present, and on the strength of this inherence in the same thing, the Line comes to be spoken of as Large" ;-because this would be contrary to the Opponent's own doctrine. This is what is meant by the words of the Text-Neither Length, etc., etc..
Dluamasu '-in the Mansions, Palaces; the Dimension-extending to a mile and so forth,-is not meant (by the Opponent) to be present in the Palaces.-(648-649)
Question :-"Why cannot such Dimension subsist in the Houses ? Answer:
