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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVIII.
TEXT (1366).
"JUST AS AMONG PEOPLE, THE MAN WHO HAS three SONS IS SPOKEN OF AS HAVING ONE SON, ON ACCOUNT OF THE ONE SON BEING Å GOOD SON -S0 IT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD IN THE
PRESENT INSTANCE ALSO."-(1366)
COMMENTARY Says the other party On account of the relation of Invariable Con. comitance, the character of the Probans should be rightly attributed to the *three-featured' Reason only.
The answer to this (from Patrusvämin) is as follows:
TEXT (1367).
"As A MATTER OF FACT, THE RELATION OF INVARIABLE CONCOMITANCE IS NOT PRESENT IN THE THREE-FEATURED' REASONS; IT IS REALLY FOUND ONLY IN THOSE REASONS WHICH HAVE THE ONE CHARAOTERISTIC FEATURE OF BEING
OTHERWISE IMPOSSIBLE'."-(1367)
COMMENTARY.
The compound anyathasambhava, etc.' is to be expounded as those Reasons in whom there is the single character of being otherwise impossible! -(1367)
The same idea is re-affirmed in the following
TEXTS (1368-1369).
*THAT ALONE IS THE TRUE PROBANS WHICH HAS THE CHARACTE
BEING OTHERWISE IMPOSSIBLE'; AS FOR CORROBORATIVE INSTANCES, THEY MAY BE THERE, OR THEY MAY NOT; AS THEY ARE NOT THE MEANS. IF THE CHARACTER OF BEING OTHERWISE IMPOSSIBLE ' IS NOL THERE, WHAT IS THE USE OF THE THREE FEATURES AND IT THE CHARACTER OF BEING OTHERWISE IMPOSSIBLE' IS THERE, WHAT IS THE USE OF THE THREE
FEATURES "-(1368-1369)
COMMENTARY.
* Corroborative Instances ', - in the form similarity and dissimilarity,
They are not the Means-of proving the Probandum.
