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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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The term Sämanyalaksana' means that which is indicated by the common character, not taking into account the distinctive characters.
Nothing else in the shape of the Universalas postulated by the other philosophers. As such Universal' cannot be acceptable to the Buddhist.
This has been thus declared :-* As it is apprehended through its own form as well as through another, its object has been held to be two-fold', and again-Inasmuch as it is based upon the Thing-by-itself as differentiated from things not of that form, the Indicative of the absence of diversity has been declared to appertain to the Commonalty
For this reason, the concomitance also, of the Inferential Indicative and the Word, is declared to pertain to the Specific Individuality itself.
Thus we conclude that there is no Inferential Indicative in support of the conclusion contrary to ours,-not merely from the fact that no such Indicative is actually perceived, but because there is non-apprehension of a particular kind.-(1057)
It has been argued above (under Text, 938, by Kumarila) that-"The difference from the Variegated Cow is equally present in the Black Cow and in the Horse, etc. etc".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1058). THE DIFFERENCE FROM THE Variegated Cow BEING EQUALLY PRESENT IN THE Black Cow AND THE HORSE, WHY IS IT THAT THE UNIVERSAL 'Cow, AS DIFFERENTIATED FROM THE Horse,
SUBSISTS IN THAT ?-(1058)
COMMENTARY.
It behoves you to say when the Horse is equally different from the Variegated Cow and the Black Cow-how it is that the Universal Cow', as differentiated from the Horse, subsists in the Variegated and other Oows, and not in the Horse -(1068)
The reply to this may be as follows:-"What is there to be said here? It is clear that it is only the Variegated and other Conos—and not the Horsethat are capable of manifesting the Universal Cow'; hence the said Universal subsists in the Cows, not in other things. Nor will it be right to urge the question-'why the Variegated and other Cows alone have the capacity to manifest the said Universal. Because such restriction is due to the very nature of things, and there can be no complaint against the nature of things; as all such restrictions are due to the series of causes that have brought about the things."
The answer to this is as follows:
