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TATTVASANGRAHA: CHAPTER XVI.
impossibility of the
Hétumulcha, the Laksanalara has spoken of the positive "
The answer to this is as follows
TEXT (1097).
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE POSITIVE' HAS BEEN AVERRED ON THE GROUND THAT SUCH THINGS AS THE UNIVERSAL ' AND THE LIKE CANNOT FORM THE SUBJECT OF WORDS AND
DETERMINATE CONCEPTIONS.-(1097)
COMMENTARY.
Inasmuch as there are no real denoted things' or denotative words in the shape of the Universal' and the like,-there can be no real subject for Words and Determinate Conceptions.-it has been asserted by the great Teacher,-in view of the real state of things.-that there is impossibility of the Positive; hence there is no contradiction at all. (1997)
It has been argued (under Texts 967, etc., by Kumarila) that--"If it is held that it is mere Apoha that is denoted, etc. etc.", -The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1098).
FROM THE TERM BLUE-LOTUS, ONLY ONE THING IS COGNISED, -AND THAT IS THE REFLECTION EXCLUDED (DIFFERENTIATED) FROM
THE NON-BLUE AND THE NON-LOTUS '-(1098)
COMMENTARY.
What the term 'Blue-lotus' expresses is, not mere negation, but-the single Reflection of the object-as excluded from the non-blue' and the * non-lotus' partaking of the nature of both. Consequently, in the case of words like 'Blue-lotus', there certainly is the denotation of things of mixed character, which has to be admitted on the strength of actual cognitions appearing in that form ; and on the basis of this the necessary coordination becomes quite possible.-(1098)
It has been argued (under Text 972, by Kumārila) that," If it be asserted that what is denoted is the thing endowed with the Apoha, eto.
eto."
The answer to this is as follows:
