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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVIII.
where the Probandum is lenour to be absent is open to doubt [and this is one of the three features) ; so that the Probans is not three featured'; hence the example cited (by Patrasvimin) is not relevant.—1416)
The following might be urged — " Certainly there is incompatibility : even when there is no difference in the cause, if there were difference in the effect-then the Affect would be causeless"
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (1417-1418).
EVEN WHEN THE CHILD IS BORN OF A CERTAIN PERSON, THERE IS ALWAYS A LIKELIHOOD OF DIVERSITY IN ITS FEATURES, BY REASON OF THE PECULIARITIES OF SUCH CAUSES AS THE DESTINY' (OF THE CHILD) AND FOOD OF THE PARENTS) AND SO ORTH.FURTHER, (a) WHAT IS OITED AS THE PROBANS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE THE nature (OF THE PROBANDUM); (0) NOR IS THAT ITS Effect; (C) NOR IS IT OF THE NATURE OF THE NON-PERCEPTION OF THE PERCEPTIBLE' ;- AND APART FROM THESE (THREE) THERU IS NOTHING THAT CAN MAKE THE PROBANB * INFALLIBLE' (TRUE).
(1417-1418)
COMMENTARY
Through such causes as the peculiarity of past good deeds (Destiny) and eating of hot food and other diverse circumstances, diversity in the features of the child-such as fairness and the like-are possible : wherefore then can there be any incompatibility where a diversity in the causes is well known
Then again, the Premiss-Because he is the son of so and so is not pl natural' Reason,- as being a product is (in the proving of non. eternality); in the latter case, being a product can have no other character save that of non-elernality; while in the case in question it is not that there is no other character for being his son': because the appellation of his son' is applied, -not on the ground of the son being darle, but on the basis of the aggregate of five ingredients (of which the body of the child consists).
-Nor is the Probans one based on effect'; as there is no causal relation known to subsist (between Being his son and Darkness).-Nor (lastly), is it of the nature of the non perception of the perceptible', as what is cited is in the positive form ; also because there being no incongruity between the two, tha Probans cannot prove the negation of complexions other than the Dark
