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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVI.
TEXTS (783-784). IF IT BE ARGUED THAT "IN THIS CASE THERE IS THE RELATION OF
Qualification-and-Qualified ", -THEN THE ANSWER IS THAT SUCH A RELATION IS ASSUMED ONLY WHEN SOME OTHER RELATION IS ALREADY THERE ; FOR INSTANCE, THH RELATION or Qualification and Qualified 18 ASSUMED ON THE BASIS OF THE OLOSE PROXIMITY (CONTACT) BETWEEN THE TWO FACTORS CONCERNED; NN
THE ABSENCE OF SUCH CONTACT, THE RELATION IN QUESTION CANNOT BE POSSIBLE, AS THERE WOULD BE NO BASIS FOR IT.
(783-784)
COMMENTARY Uddyolakara has argued as follows:-"The relation between the Universal. Jar with the particular Jar is of the nature of Inherence, while the relation of Negations is of the nature of Qualification and Qualified ; so in both cases the relation of the same thing is the basis for the common name".
The answer to this is that such a relation, etc., etc.'; that is, the relation of Qualification and Qualified among Entities is always bronght about by some other relation; e.g. the relation of Qualification and Qualified between Devadatta and his stick is due to conjunction (contact) between them, and the same between the King and his officer is due to the relation of Master and Servant. In the case of Negations however, there is no such other Relation which could form the basis of the relation of Qualification and Qualified; how then could any such relation be possible 1 If it were possible, then there would be an absurdity: everything could be the qualification of everything'.-(783-784)
The question then arising as to-"how, in the absence of any other relation, such notions are current among people as the Prior Negation of the Jar' "- the following Tests supply the answer
TEXTS (785-786). As REGARDS SUCH EXPRESSIONS AS THE PRIOR NEGATION OF THE JAR: IT IS A CREATION OF MERE FANCY JUST LIKE THE DESCRIPTION OY BRAVERY IN REGARD TO AN IMAGINARY PERSON. IN CASES WHERE THE RELATION OF Qualification and Qualified is BASED UPON A REAL ENTITY, THERE IS BOUND TO BE SOME OTHER RELATION (REGARDED AS ITS BASIS).-(785-786)
COMMENTARY. When it is found that a thing which was not there has come into existence,-and there is a desire to speak of it, there appears an imaginary
