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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XI.
TEXT (682).
THUS THEN, IF WHAT 18 MEANT TO BE ASSERTED IS THAT NUMBER AND THE REST ARE OTHER THAN (DIPERRENT FROM) SUBSTANCE, THEN THE REASON BECOMES OPEN TO THE FALLACY OF
HAVING NO SUBSTRATUM, -BECAUSE NUMBER AND THE REST ARE NOT ADMITTED AT ALL,
-(682)
COMMENTARY.
That is, what the other party seeks to prove is not thint they are not non-different, but that they are different.-(682)
The following Tery shows how Number nnd the rest ore devoid of substrntum :
TEXT (683)
IF IT IS SUBSTANOE ITSELF, AS DIVERSIFIRD THROUGH GROUT', ETC.,
THAT IS SPOKEN OF AS SUCH, THEN WHAT THE ARGUMENT WOULD PROVED WOULD BE THE DIFFERENCE OF SUBSTANCE FROM ITSELF-TUUS INVOLVING SELF-CONTRADIOTION.
(683)
COMMENTARY
Is spoken of 28 such ;-.e. as ono', 'two' and so forth.
It might be argued that," what is to be proved in the difference of Number, etc. which are only forns of Substance."
The answer to this is what the argument would prove, etc.' ;-i.e. no entity can be different from its own form; as it would become devoid of its own character.- Self-contradiction', i.e. contradiction of one another ; because Difference' and 'Non-difference, being of the nature of exclusion and inclusion, connot co-exist in any single object.
Thus livo all qualities onding with l'osteriority' been rejected. The rest of tho qualities (postulateal hy the Nyiya. T'aishēşikay-beginning with Cognition and ending with effort-leve beon held to sulxist in the Soul. They should therefore be taken as discarded by the rejection of the Suul itself.
As a matter of fact however, the Soul cannot be the substratum oi these qualities. Because the Soul could be the substratum of these, either as being the cause of their production, or as being the cause of their subsistence. It cannot be the cause of their production, because,
