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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XIII.
(B) "THE IDEA PERVADING OVER ALL COWS PROCEEDS FROM SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE BODY OF THE Cow.—BECAUSE IT APPEARS AS A DIFFERENTIATOR,—LIKE THE IDEA OF THE
BLUE' AND THE LIKE.
(C) "THE UNIVERSAL' Cow is SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE
INDIVIDUAL' Cow --BECAUSE IT FORMS THE OBJECT OF A DIFFERENT IDEA-LIKE THE IDEA OF THE COLOUR AND OTHER QUALITIES OF THE SAME Cow, -ALSO BECAUSE IT (THE UNIVERSAL) IS SPOKEN OF AS BELONGING TO THAT (THE INDIVIDUAL), JUST AS THE HORSE
IS SPOKION OF AS BELONGING TO Chailre."(716-720)
COMMENTARY
Bhävivikta has argued as follows " In regard to such things as the Cow, Horse, Buffalo, Boar, Elephant, etc., the peculiarities of Name-Cow', ete.-and I don must be due to a cause rolntod to the form of each animal, but different from sneh causes as Convention, Shape, Body and the likethis is the Pronouncement (of the Conclusion). [The Reason is this) Because while apportaining to the Cow, etc., they are Namos and Ideas different from the Names and Ideas of the Body, etc. ;-just like such peculiar Names and Ideas relating to the same animals as the Cow with the calf',
the Bullock with the load', 'the Boar with the dart, the Elephant with the goad' and so forth.-The Corroborative Instances per dissimilarity are the Names and Ideas of the forms of the Body and other things.-It follows from this that this other cause must be the Universals', Cow!, Elephant' and so forth."
The term ' abhidhāna' stands for Name; prajñāna' for Idea, Cogni. tion-the peculiarities in the shape of these two are meant by the compound abhidhanaprabanruishesả'.
Samaya' is Convention ;- Akri-Shape; - Pinda'-Body ;-the term etc. includes Colour and such details. Different from these are the Causes related to and in keeping with the form of each of the animals in regard to its Namo and Idea.
Or the compound may mean that the Causes of the names and notions of Being' and the rest are different from Convention and the rost. The rest being understood as before.
Proclamation - Proposition, Conclusion.
In order to avoid the fallibility due to the Reason otherwise applying to non-entities like the Hare's Horn (which also has a distinct Name and Idea relating to it),--the qualification has been added in the form while appertaining to the Cow, etc..
The compound setting forth the Reason is to be exponnded as-Because they have Names and Ideas different from the Names and Ideas relating to the Body, etc.'. The Names and Ideas of the Body' serve as the Corrobora. tive Instance per dissimilarity; as in this instance, the presence of a cat.ee
