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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVI.
TEXT (1111).
IF WHAT BELONGS TO THE UNIVERSAL LOTUS? IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IS RELATED TO THE QUALITY AND UNIVERSAL (BLUE), THEN THE WORDS BLUE' AND 'LOTUS CANNOT BE
CO-SUBSTRATE (CO-ORDINATED).-(1111)
COMMENTARY.
There is a hiatns after the particle.yadi ("if ').
They cannot be co-substrale' ;-i.e. they cannot be co-ordinated. (1111)
The following might be nrged : -" Though the same Substance is denoted by the word 'blue', and also by the word Lotus ', - yet the word blue denotes the Substance, not as something related to the Universal Lotus', but as related to the Quality Blue and the Universal 'Blue'; consequently, the word “Lotus' is used for the purpose of expressing the fact of the substance being related to the Universal 'Lotus'; and as such it cannot be useless."
This argument is raised and answerod in the following: -
TEXTS (1112-1114). IF THE WORD BLUE' DOES NOT DENOTE THE SUBSTANCE RELATED
TO THE QUALITY AND THE UNIVERSAL (BLUE) AS RELATED TO THE UNIVERSAL LOTUS-THEN THE SUBSTANCE AS RELATED TO THE UNIVERSAL 'LOTUS SHOULD BE SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT ; AS A MATTER OF TAOT, WHAT IS RELATED TO THE UNIVERSAL 'LOTUS' IS THAT SAME SUBSTANCE THAT IS RELATED TO THE OTHER TWO (QUALITY AND UNIVERSAL Blue'); AND THAT SUBSTANCE HAS ALREADY BEEN EXPRESSED, IN ITS ENTIRETYNOT IN PART, BY THE WORD BLUE',- AND HAS ALSO BEEN APPREHENDED BY THE VERBAL COGNITION BROUGHT ABOUT BY THAT WORD SO THAT THE WORD 'Lorus' WOULD BE ENTIRELY USELESS.-(1112-1114)
COMMENTARY
If the word 'blue' does not denote the Substance related to the Quality and the Universal 'Blue', as related to the Universal Lotus ', -thon (there is the following incongruity).
The substance as related to the Universal Lotus' is not something entirely different from the substance as related to the Quality and Universal Blue', on the basis whereof on the denotation of the Substance related to the Quality and Universal 'Blue', there might be no denotation of the Substance as related to the Universal 'Lotus'. As a matter of fact, however, there is
