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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVI.
From all this it is clear that when there is (exclusion of one A poha, the Cow, in another Apoha, the Horse,-it could be an exclusion of the
Universal' only. It is established therefore that the Universal, being the object of 'Exclusion', must be a positive entity.-(956)
Then again, the Apohas could be either different or non-different among themselves. If they are held to be different, then there are objections to that view.-This is shown in the following
TEXT (957) * IF THE NEGATION OF A NEGATION IS DIFFERENT FROM IT, THEN IT MUST BE A POSITIVE ENTITY. IF NOT, THEN THE Cow WILL BE THE SAME AS THE Non-CoW FOR YOU."- [Shlo.-V&.
Apoha 97]—(957)
COMMENTARY
If, of the negation '-i.e. of that negation which is denoted by the word non-cow!,- the negation i.e. that which is denoted by the word 'cow, were different from the former Negation,-i.e. something other than it,
then it would be a Positive Entity: because the positive character consists only in the absence of negation.
If it is not different from it, then, for you, the Cou also should be NonCow; because what is not different must be understood to be the same.--- (957)
The following might be urged—'What are excluded by the words Cow and Horse are only the Specific Individualities as excluded from one another ; and it is not Negations that are excluded; hence the contingency of their becoming positive entities cannot be unacceptable to us!
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (958). “THOUGH IN THE CASE OF OTHER WORDS, A POSITIVE ENTITY MAY BE. WHAT IS EXCLUDED YET IN THE CASE OF THE WORD 'SAT (BEING'), NOTHING APART FROM NEGATION 'IS REGARDED AS EXCLUDED'.
(Shlo.-Vā. Apoha 98]—(958)
COMMENTARY.
In the case of words other than 'Being -.g. such words as Cow" and the rest,-it may be that what is excluded is an entity, in the form of the Hill and other things; but in the case of the word "Being' itself, there is nothing that could be held to be excluded except that which is called "Negation; that is, Negation alone can be excluded; because the word
