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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVI,
exclusion of non-core (and non-cows are many and diverse); thus they could not all be synonymous.-(928)
This answer is rejected in the following
TEXT (928). ** IN FACT, THERE CAN BE NO DISTINOTION AMONG Apohas—EITHER
BY THEMSELVES, OR THROUGH OTHERS." [Ibid. 47]—(928)
COMMENTARY.
There can be no diversity or plurality in the Apoha itself, because it is of the essence of mere negation. If it were diverse through others,-then this could be only imaginary, not real. Because it is not right that a nature that does not belong to a thing by itself should come to it through others, -(928)
Why should not this be right : Answer
TEXT (929),
** WHEN EVEN THE SUBSTRATA TO WHICH THEY ARE RELATED DO NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IN THE FORM OF THE Apohas,—THAT THEY
WOULD BE DIFFERENTIATED BY THE excluded things, WHICH ARE EXTERIOR TO THEM, WOULD BE AN ASSUMPTION THAT IS TOO FAR-FETCHED."
[Ibid. 521–929)
COMMENTARY.
That is to say, when the things to which they are related, the variegated and other Cows—which are their substrata-enter into their very constitution, are unable to produce any difference in the essence of the Apohas, -inasmuch as even among the several cows, variegated and the rest, the Apoha, in the shape of the Exclusion of the non-cow', is held to be one only,then how could this 4 poha be rendered diverse by the objects excluded -such as the Horse, etc.- which are exterior to it! A thing that cannot be diversified by that which enters into its very constitution cannot certainly be diversified by what is exterior to it; as in that case the latter would cease to be exterior.
For this reason, what has been suggested is too much of an assumptionThis has been said in a joking spirit.-(929)
It might be argued that-in that case the inner correlates in the shape of the substrata themselves may be taken as serving the purposes of the differentiation.
The answer to this is provided in the following
