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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XVIII.
tive Instance, reasserts the subject as being so, or as being not so '-(Nyayasülra 1. 1. 38). This Re-affirmation is not the means of proving the conclusion, as it only serves to make clear the sense of the Probans adduced, being, as it is, like a second affirmation of the Probans' such is the anthoritative statement of Dinnāga in regard to this Re.affirmation.-But Bhūviuita and others have argued as follows, in order to show that (without this Reaffirmation) the function of the Probans itself would remain unfulfilled - The fact of the Probans subsisting in the thing where the Probandum is known to be present is not mada clear by the statement of the Probans, which comes just after the statement of the Proposition ; because the former only mentions the Reason-Sound is non-eternal, because it is a product': -and whether this character of being a product' subsists, or does not subsist, in Sound, this is learnt only from the Reaffirmation. Or the Reafirmation may be regarded as serving the purpose of providing Re-presentment; when the Probans is stated At first, it points out the presence of the Probans-e.g. being a product'-in & general, inqualified, form;-then the Corroborative Instance is cited, where it is shown that the said Probans is invariably concomitant with the Probandum ;-o that when, after these, the Reaffirmation is stated, it brings about the Representment of the Probans with the qualification that it is invariably concomitant with the Probandum,- So is Sound a product! Thus inasmuch as it indicates a particular feature, it is not a mere repetition".
The answer to this is as follows:
TEXTS (1438-1439)
IF THERE IS NO STATEMENT OF THE Proposition, THERE CAN BE NO STATEMENT OF THE Reason (PROBANS); AND CONSEQUENTLY, THERE NEED BE NO STATEMENT OF THE Reaffirmation, FOR THE PURPOSE OF INTIMATING THE EXISTENCE (OF THE PROBANS IN THE MINOR TERM, SUBJECT).-MERE PRESENCE (OF THE PROBANS IN THE SUBJECT) HAVING BEEN STATED AT FIRST, AND THEN, IP ITS INVARIABLE CONCOMITANCE (WITH THE PROBANDUM) IS SUBSEQUENTLY POINTED OUT, -BY THIS ALL THAT IS INTENDED BECOMES ACCOMPLISHED, SO THAT TH Representment WOULD BE ENTIRELY USELESS. -
(1438-1439)
COMMENTARY. * For the purpose of intimating the excistence'-of the Probans, in the Subject, Minor Term.
What is meant is as follows:- The necessity of the statement of the Proposition having been negatived in the manner shown above, if the
