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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVI.
to have these Cows as the substratum of Apoha, must admit of the similarity; and in that case, that similarity as the Universal' would form the Import of the Word, and there would be no use for the assuming of Apolo.
The term . Visaya' in this Text, stands for substratum or receptacle; just as in such expressions as 'Jalavişaya matsyah ':-(932)
For those people also who assume the diversity of Apoha to be based upon what is excluded (by it),-even that diversity is not possible without an entity in the shape of the Universal'.--This is shown in the following
TEXT (933).
" IN THE ABSENCE OF A COMMON PROPERTY, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE TEINGS EXCLUDED (BY A poha). FOR THIS REASON
ALSO THERS CAN BE No Apoha."-[Ibid. 72)—(933)
COMMENTARY.
If there were some property common to the Horse and all other nonCows, then they could all be exchided by the word 'Cow; not otherwise ; as no other ground for distinction is perceptible. If such a common property is admitted, then the postulating of the Apoha becomes useless. Thus, for this reason, there can be no Apoha.-1933)
"Further, it is held by you that the Apoha is indicated by the Word and by the Inferential Indicative; now both these, Word and Indicative, cannot be operative in the absence of a positive Universal '; hence (for you) how is the Apoha indicated ? "
This argument is set forth in the following
TEXT (934). "OF THE WORD AND THE INDICATIVE, NO OPERATION IS POSSIBLE WITH
OUT CONCOMITANCE; AND WITHOUT THESE (WORD AND THE INDICATIVE), THERE CAN BE NO A poha; AND THERE CAN BE NO CONCOMITANCE FOR WHAT IS UNCOMMON
(UNIQUE, SPECIFIO)."-[Ibid. 73)—(934)
COMMENTARY.
Anvayavinirmukta Sie, without co-ordination.
These-i.e. the Word and the Indicative.-Without these, the Apoha cannot be apprehended', this has to be taken as understood.
It might be said that "the Word and the Indicative may operate on the basis of concomitance with the Specifio Individuality".
The answer to this is that there can be, etc. etc.!. That is, the Specific Individuality is something uncommon, pot partaking of anything else; how
