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EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORT OF WORDS.
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TEXTS (1120-1121).
WHAT IS PRODUCED BY THN WORD, IN DUE COURSE, IS ONLY THE Reflection;
AND IT IS THROUGH DELUSION THAT THIS APPEARS AS one AND AS external. THE CO-ORDINATION AND OTHER RELATIONS ARH DUE TO THE REFLECTION. IX REALITY, ALL THESE WORDS ARE
HELD TO BE OBJEOT
LES$.-(1120-1121)
COMMENTARY.
When the word 'blue' is uttered, what it brings about first of all is the conceptual Reflection, excluded (differentiated) from all non-blue things, and scintillating over the Lotus and other (blue) things and hence not excluding these latter, and conceived (objectively) in the external form; then when subsequently, the word 'Lotus' is uttered, what it brings about is the conceptual Reflection, excluded from all that is non-lotus, and with the form of only one external thing superimposed upon it in this way, in due course, there is brought about an ilkisory (conjunct) conceptual Reflection, excluded from the non-blue' and the non-lotus', with the one external form imposed upon it, and it is in consequence of this that an illusory co-ordination becomes possible.
* Why is it not so, in reality ?"
Answer SIn reality, all these words are held to be objectle88.-(11201121)
there can be
It has been argued (inder Text 973, by Kumārila) that no connection between the Apoha and Gender, Number, etc".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (1122). AS FOR THE CONNECTION OF GENDER AND NUMBER, IT IS NOT PRESENT IN INDIVIDUALS ALSO ; IN FACT, SUCH CONNECTION IS BASED ENTIRELY UPON CONVENTIONS SET UP BY THE WHIMS
OF PEOPLE; IT IS NOTHING REAL-(1122)
COMMENTARY.
The fact of Gender, Number, etc. belonging to things is not admitted. In fact it is due entirely to Conventions set up at whim.
"In Individuals also the term also is meant to include the Apoha.
The argument may be formulated thus :- When one thing does not follow the presence and absence of another thing, then it cannot belong to it; e.g. Coolness and Fire ;-Gender and Number do not follow the presence and absence of individual things,--hence there is non-perception of the wider term (which implies the non-existence of the narrower).-(1122)
