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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVI.
TEXT (1145). ALL THINOS CANNOT BE desired; AS, IN THAT CASE, THERE WOULD BE NO RESTRIOTION REGARDING ANY DENOTATIONS. HENCE IN THE
CASE OF WORDS LIKE 'COOKS' AND THE LIKE, THERE IS CLEARLY SOMETHING EX
CLUDED:-(1145)
COMMENTARY
If all things were desired' (to be expressed), then there could be no restriction regarding the denotation of words; in that case, it would not be possible for the hearer to undertake any activity that might be called for on the hearing of the word ; consequently it cannot be right that all things are desired (to be expressed).
From all this it follows that in the case of words like cooks' (Verbe) there is exclusion of the undesired, by inaplication, and it is quite clearly apprehended.-(1145)
The following Texts also proceed to show how the said "exclusion of the unintended' is expressed by implication :
TEXTS (1146-1147).
WHEN THE VERB' pachati' (* Cooks') IS UTTERED, WHAT IS UNDERSTOOD IS THAT HE IS NOT DOING NOTHING, NOR IS HE eating or gambling - WHERE THE EXCLUSION OF OTHER ACTS IS CLEARLY APPREHÜNDED. THUS, WHATEVER IS INTENDED (TO BE SPOKEN), THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING EXCLUDED' BY THE RELATIVE NEGATION, THIS SOMETHING BEING DOING NOTHING AND ALSO OTHER AOTS (THAN THE ONE MEANT TO BE SPOKEN
OF BY THE VERB USED).-(1146-1147)
COMMENTARY.
From the above it is clear that the verb pachati' (cooks) excludes "doing nothing', and also other acts like Wating, Gambling and the like, which thus are the "excluded', through 'Relative Negation. Hence the assertion that "there is nothing that is denied in the form of Relative Negation" (Text 974) is not true.
In the compound Paryudāsātmakāpohyam - paryadāsatmakam' is to be taken as qualifyingapohjan
Whatever is intended to be spoken of'-by that, there is something to be excluded through Relative Negation, in the shape of doing nothing and the rest.-(1146-1147)
