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EXAMINATION OF 'SĀMĀNYA', THE UNIVERSAL'.
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objects like the Cook, etc., the comprehensive notion-idea-which ultimately apprehends only something distinguished from all things unlike itself-pro. ceeds in accordance with Convention; as this exclusion of the unlike is always present.
Because this is so, therefore it follows that iu the case of the Cow', etc. also, notions partaking of a uniform character, as also Names, should proceed on the basis of Convention,-even without any entity like the Universal'.-So that the Reason put forward by the other party remains Inconclusive, (Fallible, Untrue).-(764-765)
The following Text further supports the argument (urged der Text 748, above) based upon the notion of Nogation with regard to Negation
TEXT (766)
THUS THE NOTION OF NEGATION WITH REGARD TO Negation is NOT INCOM
PATIBLE; NOR IS THE COMPREHENSIVE NAME (INCOMPATIBLE); BECAUSE THEY PROCEED FROM CONVENTION, WHICH DOES NOT INVOLVE THE ASSUMPTION OF ANY OTHER ENTITY.
(766)
COMMENTARY
The only basis for a comprehensive notion, that will apply to all cases, consists in the Body of Convention ; otherwise, the incongruity of the comprehensive notion that we have in regard to all Negations, -as also of the very term 'Negation'-cannot be denied. Because in the case of Negations, there can be no 'Universal', which subsists only in entities (not in non-entities),
Why it is not incompatible is shown by the words - Because they proceed etc., etc.'; the Convention is called "anartha in the sense that it does not involve the assumption of any other entity in the shape of the Universal and so forth; from such convention, they porceed ;-i.e. the Name and the Idea follow the presence or absence of the said Convention.-(766)
The following Texts anticipate and answer Shankarasvamin's answer to the Bauddha's criticisms
