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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVI.
TEXT (1140). THAT (UNIVERSAL) WHICH SUBSISTS IN THE many INDIVIDUAL TREES IS THE SAME THAT SUBSISTS IN THE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL (TREH), THE BASIS THEREOV BEING THE SAME IN BOTH CASES ; CONSEQUENTLY, THE IDEA OF 'Vana' (FOREST) SHOULD BE THERE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SINGLE TREE ALSO.-- (1140)
COMMENTARY. Under the said view also, & single Tree could be spoken of as 'Vama. Because what the word "vana' denotes is the Universal as subsisting in the many Individuals, and that same Universal subsists in the single Individual tree, Dhava also ; thus the basis of the notion of "vana' being the same in all cases, why should the notion of vand not appear in connection with the single tree also 1-(1140)
In the following Text, the Anthor sums up his Reasoning :
TEXT (1141). THUS THE USE OF WORDS IN THE SINGULAR AND OTHER NUMBERS SHOULD BE REGARDED THROUGH CONCOMITANCE AND NON-CONCOMITANCE, AB DEPENDING ENTIRELY UPON THE SPEAKER'S WHIM, NOT UPON THE REAL STATE OF THINGS; AS IT IS NOT ALWAYS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THIS LATTER.— (1141)
COMMENTARY. As it is, etc. etc.: because the real state of things is not exactly as expressed by the words.(1141)
It has been argued (under Text 973, by Kumārila) that," the Apoha can have no connection with Gender and Number, etc.''; where the .etcetera' is meant to include the connection of Action, Time and so forth.
This is answered in the following
TEXT (1142) Tun CONNECTION OF ACTION, TIMH, ETO. HAS BEEN ALREADY REJECTED BEFORE. HENCE ALL THESE ALSO ARE PURELY CONVENTIONAL, AND DO NOT really SUBSIST IN INDIVIDUALS
ALSO.(1142)
COMMENTARY Before ', - i.e. in course of the rejection of such concepts as Action, Time and so forth, the connection also of Action, etc. has been discarded; hence these also cannot belong to things.
* Conventional-created by Convention.-(1142)
