________________
620
TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVII.
TEXT (1223).
NAME, UNIVERSAL AND ALL THE REST ARE connected by the SAID CONCEPTUAL CONTENT; HENCE WHAT IS SPOKEN OF (BY DINXĀGA'S DEFINITION) IS THE SAME CONCEPTUAL CONTENT WHICH HAS BERN DESCRIBED AS THE IDEA ASSOCIATED WITH
VERBAL EXPRESSION :-(1223)
COMMENTARY.
(turged
The following Teal supplies another answer to the criticism against Dinnāga's definition) :
TEXT (1224).
OR, WHAT HAS BEEN SPOKEN OP (IN THE DEFINITION IN QUESTION) IS THE SAME Conceptual Content THAT WE HAVE OURSELVES ASSERTED; -(THIS INTERPRETATION) BEING BASED UPON THE FACT THAT IN ALL CASES THINGS ARE SPOKEN OF BY THEIR NAME (THIS BEING THE MEANING OF THE COMPOUND
'nāmidiyojana ').-(1224)
COMMENTARY.
Question :- If it be as asserted above, then how do you explain the explanatory words of the Teacher ? For instance, he has declared as follows :-In the case of Proper names, like Pittha, what is denoted is an object qualified by a Name; in the case of common nouns like Cow' what is denoted is the object qualified by the Universal Cow'; in the case of adjectives, like 'white', what is expressed is the object qualified by the Quality of whiteness'; in the case of verbal nouns what is denoted is the object qualified by the Action; and in the case of words speaking of substances,-like stick-holderhorned and the like—what is denoted is the object qualified by the substance.-By this text the Teacher has made it quite clear that things qualified by the qualifications of the Universal', etc. are also separately denoted by words."
The answer to this is that 'In all cases, etc. etc.'-' In all cases '-i.e. even in the case of words denoting the Universal, etc.-What is meant is as follows Just 88 when Proper names are pronounced, what is denoted is the object qualified by the Name,-90 also in the case of words expressive of the Universal, etc.,-like Cow'—what is denoted is the object grualified by that Name :--similarly in all cases (what is denoted is an object qualified by, connected with, a name]. -(1224)
Question :-" In that case, how are we to construe the Instrumental in the-words jātya ', gunena' etc. (by the Universal, by the Quality) ? "
Answer
