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EXAMINATION OF SAMANYA', THE UNIVERSAL'.
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Their relationship -i.e. the relation between the Universal' and the Particular Object.
* Tādātmye ',-1.. the previous defective form not having been abandoned.-(757-760)
Even when the Object is admitted to be evanescent, the objection stated remains in force - this is what is shown in the following
TEXT (761). IF THE PARTICULAR OBJEOT BE not permanent, IT MIGHT ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS: BUT EVEN 50, THE DEFECTIVE NATURE
OF THE UNIVERSAL 'WOULD NEVER CEASE.--(761)
COMMENTARY.
It may be that the Particular Ohjeet, being impermanent, will acquire additional qualities later on; but the Universal', being permanent, will always retain its character of being averse to Inherence ; hence how could it be inherent even at a later stage 1-Nor can it be right to assert that"the Universal' remains for ever in a state which is not a verse to subsequent Inherence" ;-because in that case, the Particular Object also would have to be regarded as eternal; as the Universal ' related to it would be eternal; because in the absence of one relative, the other relative cannot be said to be devoid of the defect preventing ita related nature.-(761)
The following Teax pnts forward the answer given by Uddyotakara:
TEXT (762) * THE NAME 'Cook' IS MEANT TO BE APPLIED TO THAT WHICH IS THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF THE ACT OF cooking ; AND THIS 'PRINCI.
PALITY' IS PRESENT IN ANOTHER COOK ALSO."-(762)
COMMENTARY. Uddyota kara has argued as follows (in Nyayavártika, Sū. 2. 2. 8, page 320) -" It is through ignorance of our Reason that our Opponent has urged that - just as the term Oook is comprehensive in its connotation, and yet there is no such Universal as Cook -50 also is the comprehensive character of the connotation of the term Cow '. -Because what is meant by our Reason is that Particular Cognition cannot be accidental (without cause)'; and what this means is that the Idea which is different from the idea of the individual object must be due to a different cause and not that all comprehensive ideas are based upon Universals'. Such being the case, that which is the principal cause of the action of cooking is what is spoken of by the name Cook'; and this principal character is present in other persons also ; hence the objection urged against us has no force."
