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EXAMINATION OF SAMAVIYA' (INHERENCE, SUBSISTENCE).
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TEXTS (842-843).
" FROM THE PERCEPTION OF THE FACT TRAT THE NOTION OF SUBSISTING
IN THIS, WHICH ARISES OUT OF INHERENCE', IS PRESENT IN ALL CASES, IT IS CONCLUDED THAT INHERENCE' IS ONE ONLY; AT THE SAME TIME, FROM THE PERCEPTION OF THE FACT THAT SUCH BASES AS THE UNIVERSALS
SUBSTANCE' AND THE REST ARE ABSENT IN CERTAIN CASES, IT IS CONCLUDED THAT THE NOTIONS OF THESE UNIVERSALS SUBSTANCE AND THE REST ARE
RESTRICTED IN THEIR SCOPE."-(842-813)
COMMENTARY.
"The notion of subsistence in this', which is based upon Loherenee. is found to appear in all cases in one and the same form, from which it follows that Inherence is one only. However, oven though Inherence is one, the notions based upon the Universals Substanco', etc. are fonnd to appear in distinct forms as resting in distinct substrata ; and thus they are found to be absent.--not present-in all cases; from this it is concluded that these Universals are distinct and diverse; so that there can be no admixture of the five Categories."—(842-843)
In answer to the question-How is it that there is this restriction of the Container and Contained. when the relation (of Inherence) is one and the same 2-the following answer is provided (by Praalastamati) :
TEXTS (844-845).
" EVEN THOUGH CONJUNCTION IS ONE ONLY, YET THE RELATION OF
Container and Coniained IS RICSTRICTED TO THE PIT AND THE CURD (PLACED THEREIN); SIMILARLY THERE WOULD BE RESTRIOTION IN THE CASE IN QUESTION ALSO. SO THAT, EVEN THOUGH INHERENCE IS ONE ONLY, YET AS THERE WOULD BE DIVERSITY IN THE CHARACTER OF BEING THR manifester and manifested THERE WOULD BE NO INCONGRUITY
IN IT AT ALL."-(844-845)
COMMENTARY. " Even though Oonjunction is one only, yet in the case of the Curd and the Pit, the relation of Container and Contained is restricted similarly, in the case of the Universals Substance', etc., even though Inherence is one only, yet, by reason of the diversity in the capacity of manifester and
