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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVI.
TEXT (960).
" EITHER DIVERSITY OR TEH POSITIVE CHARACTER OF A pohas CANNOT BE ASSUMED TO BE DUE TO THE DIVERSITY OF IMPRESSIONS; BECAUSE IMPRESSION CANNOT BE HELD TO EXIST WHEN THERE IS
NO ENTITY."-[Shlo. Vă. Apoha 100)-(960)
COMMENTARY As a matter of fact, no one holds the view that Irapressions or Tendencies belong to the non-entity. That there is no objectless Cognition has also been thoroughly discussed and proved in course of our examination of Idealism. Hence there can be no conceptions based upon unreal objects; how then can there be any Impression resting upon such conception !
* A vastuni',-i.e. when there is no Entity which could be its substratum ; and when there can be no Cognition without objects, -as there could be no cognition that could produce the Impression-how could there be any Impression ? And when there is no Impression, how could the diversity among Apohas or their positive character, be due to Impressions -(980)
Having thus discarded . Apoha' as the denoted', the Opponent of the Buddhist proceeds to discard it also as held to be the denotative':
TEXTS (961-963).
« YOU CANNOT BASE THE DIVERSITY AMONG Words ALSO UPON THE
SAID CONDITIONS. THERE CAN BE NO UNOOMMON DENOTATIVE WORD, AS NO SUCH COULD HAVE BEEN PERCEIVED BEFORE. UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, IF A COMMONALTY' WERE ASSUMED IN THE SHAPE OF THE Apoha (EXCLUSION) OR OTHER WORDS, AS IT COULD ONLY BE A NON-ENTITY, AS SHOWN ABOVE, THERE COULD BE NO DIVERSITY AMONG WORDS.-JUST AS AMONG DENOTATIVE WORDS, SO BETWEEN THE DENOTED AND DENOTATIYE ALSO THERE COULD BE NO DIFFERENCE. THAT THERE CAN BE NO DIFFERENCE BASED UPON THE DIFFERENCE IN THE EXCLUDED THINGS' HAS ALREADY BEEN EXPLAINED."-[Shlo.- Vă. Apoha 102, 104, 105] (961-963)
COMMENTARY. The term Shabdabhidah' stands for the mutual difference among words denotative of diverse Universals and those denotative of Particulars.
"Upon the said conditions', -ie. based upon the diversity of Impressions or on the diversity of the 'Excluded A pohas',
Objection Among words, diversity is clearly perceived, as based upon their source and upon the imposition on them of mutually contradictory characters.
Answer: There can be no uncommon word, etc. etc.'What is said here is with reference to the denotative word; and what is meant is that
