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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XIII,
TEXT (805). THE VARIOUS UNIVERSALS, JAR' AND THE REST, COULD SUBSIST EITHER IN THEIR OWN RESPECTIVE RECEPTACLES OR IN ALL PLACES,
LIKE THE HIGHEST UNIVERSAL' (SUMMUM GENUS).-(805)
COMMENTARY. "Ghatādi, etc. .. such diverse Universals' as the Jar. and the rest.
The Universals Jar', Clayey and the like have been described as all-pervasive, and yet would they be described as pervading only over their own substratum-or as pervading over all space, even where there are no individuals at all ?-There are only these two views possible.
Like the Highest Universal':- Being 'is called the highest Universal because it comprises the largest number of things. It is this widest Universal as comprising the largest number of things that has been cited as the instance, and not any such Universal as pervades over only such space as happens to lie between two individuals; as the said character is not perceived in this latter.-(805)
Out of the two alternatives set forth above, the Author sets forth the objection against the first alternative :
TEXT (806). WHEN THE THING COMES INTO EXISTENCE IN ANOTHER PLACE, IT IS NOT UNDERSTOOD HOW THE UNIVERSAL IS PERCEIVED THERE, OR
HOW IT GAINS SUBSISTENCE THEREIN.-(806)
COMMENTARY. When in a place entirely devoid of the Jar, a Jar comes into existence (on being made),-how the particular Universal Jer' comes to be perceived in that Jar,-or how it subsists in it, it is not understood.-(806)
The following Text explains why it is not understood
TEXT (807). THE UNIVERSALS CANNOT BE SAID TO HAVE COME INTO EXISTENCE ALONG WITH THE NEW JAR-BEOAUSE THEY ARE ETERNAL; NOR CAN THEY BE SAID TO HAVE BEEN THERE ALREADY, BECAUSE (et hypothesi) THEY ARE NOT ALL-PERVADING ; NOR CAN THEY BE SAID TO HAVE COME FROM HLSEWHERE,
BECAUSE THEY ARE IMMOBILD.-(807)
COMMENTARY. In the said case the Universal . Jar' could either come into existence along with the different individual Jars, -or it would be there already, or
