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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVI.
TEXTS (989-994).
* WIY IS THE DENOTATION OF THE WORD (Cow') HELD TO BE THE
A poha—IN THE FORM THE Cow is not non-Cow'! WHO HAS EVER ATTRIBUTED THE CHARACTER OF THE non-Cow TO THE Cow—THAT IT IS DENIED HERE ?-IT IS HELD THAT IT IS THE EXCLUSION OF THE non-Cow' IN THE Cow, WHICH FORMS THE DENOTATION OF THE WORD IS THIS HELD TO BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE Cow! OR NON-DIFFERENT !-IF IT IS different, DOES IT ABIDEOr not ABDR-ANYWHERE? IF IT DOES ABIDE, THEN IT BECOMES A Quality, AND THE WORD CANNOT BE DENOTATIVE OF THE Substance ; -AND THUS AS THE WORD Cow' WOULD DENOTE ONLY A Quality. THERE WOULD BE NO CO-ORDINATION IN SUCH EXPRESSIONS AS THE Cow MOVES, THE COW STANDS'.-IF IT DOES NOT ABIDE IN ANY THING, THEN WHAT WOULD BE THE SENSE IN WHICH IT COULD BE MENTIONED, FOR THE PURPOSE OF exclusion, BY THE TERM Agok,
OF THE NON-Cow'?-IF, LASTLY, THE "A poha', EXCLUSION OF OTHERS IS HELD BY YOU TO BE non-different (FROM THE Cow), THEN IT COMES TO BE THE SAME As Cow; WHAT MORE WOULD, IN THAT CASE, BE EXPRESSED (BY THE TERM ' Apoha') ? "-(989-994)
COMMENTARY
The particle cha' in Text, 989) has the collective sense; what is meant by the sentence is—why do you assert the denotation of the word 'Cow" to be the Apoha in the form of 'Not non-Cow'?
Why should it not be 80 asserted'? (asks the Buddhist). The answer is— Who has, etc. etc.?
* For the following reason also Apoha cannot be accepted :-Because none of the alternatives possible under that theory is admissible : The A poha, or Exclusion, of the non-Cow in the Cow, is this (A) Different, or (B) Non-different-(from the Cow)(A) If it is different; (a) does it abide (in the Cow)? Or (6) does it not abide in it a) If it does abide in it, then, inasmuch as it abides in it, it becomes a Quality; that is, the word Cow' denotes a Quality, and not the Substance, the animal, Cow; and under the circumstances, there can be no such Co-ordination as that expressed in the words 'the Cow is standing', 'the Cow is moving':-(b) If, on the other hand, it does not abide in it, then what is the significance of the Genitive ending in the phrase 'agoh apohah' ('the Apoha of the nonCor) -(B) II, lastly, the Apoha is non-different from the Cow, then it is the same as the Cow, and the postulating of it is entirely sutile."-(989994)
