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CHAPTER XV.
Examination of Sumavāya' (Inherence, Subsistence).
COMMENTARY. The following Texts proceed to set forth objections to the Category of * Inherence:
TEXT (823).
"INHERENCE (SUBSISTENCE) IS APPREHENDED ON THE BASTS OF THE NOTION OF THIS SUBSISTS IN THAT', -STCH AS IS FOUND IS THE EXPRESSIONS THE CLOTH CONSISTS OF (SUBSISTS IN) THESE YARNS, THE MAT CONSISTS OF
(SUBSISTS IN) THE REEDS","-(823)
COMMENTARY.
"In regard to tliings that are inseparable, and among things where one is the container and the other the contained,--there is the notion of this subsisting in that; and the relation upon which this notion is based is * Inherence (Subsistence). This is apprehended as something different from Substance and the other categories, on the basis of the particular notions of
subsistence' present in such conceptions as the Cloth subsists in these yarns. In the case of such Universals as 'Being, Substance and the rest. it is found that they bring abont cognitions like their own, of their substratum,- and on this basis they are regarded us different from one another and also from their substratum; the same is found to be the case with 'Inherence also; in regard to all the other five categories, there are such notions - The Universal Substance subsists in this substance', 'the Universal Quality subsists in this quality', 'the Universal Action subsists in this action, the Ultimate Individualities subsist in these substances and so forth; and on the basis of these notions, it is concluded that Inherence is something distinct from these five (Substance and the rest).—This argument may be formulated thus :-When a notion is found to appear in regard to a thing in a form different from that of that thing, that notion must be based upou something different from that thing, for example, the notion of the man with the stick' in regard to Devadatta of this same kind is the notion of this subsists in that that appears in regard to the five Categories and this is regarded as justifying the conclusion (that the notion is dne to a distinct category in the shape of Inherence)."-(823)
The Author proceeds to explain the character of this Inherence
