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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRAIKĀLYA'.
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TEXTS (1822-1828). SUCH A PAST ENTITY WOULD BE ONE THAT HAS COME INTO EXISTENCE,
NOT HAVING BEEN THERE BEFORE, AND AS SUCH IT WOULD CLEARLY BE PRESENT', -JUST LIKE ANY OTHER PRESENT 'ENTITY ; ALSO BECAUSE IT WOULD BE OCCASIONAL.-IF AN ENTITY HAS NO CAUSE, IT CAN BE EITHER ETERNALLY EXISTENT OR NON-EXISTENT, BECAUSE IT WOULD NOT BE DEPENDENT UPON ANYTHING ELSE. THAT HOWEVER, WHICH HAS ITS EXISTENCE DEPENDENT UPON A CAUSE MUST BE CALLED 'PRESENT':-THEN AGAIN, OTHER PEOPLE HAVE POSTULATED THAT MODIFICATION OF FORM, ETC. IS DIFFERENT IN CHARACTER FROM PRATISANKHYĀNIRODHA' (Dis. SOCIATION FROM IMPURITIES BROUGHT ABOUT BY TRANSCENDENTAL KNOWLEDGE), AND OTHER ETERNAL VERITIES'; AND THIS' MODIFICATION' OR EMBELLISHMENT OF FORM AND OTHER THINGS, COMES ABOUT THROUGH BIRTH, EXISTENCE, ETC.; NOW WHAT IS THAT PECULIARITY BY PRODUCING WHICH, BIRTH IS SAID TO BE 'PRODUCTIVE' OF THE THING? IS IT SOMETHING non-different FROM THE UNBORN' FORM? OR different FROM IT? IF THE PECULIARITY IS nondifferent FROM THE FORM, THEN THERE CAN BE NO 'PRODUCTION OF IT; AS IT WOULD, IN THAT CASE, BE THERE EVEN BEFORE THE
BIRTH', JUST AS AFTER IT. AS FOR A different PECULIARITY, THERE CAN BE NO SUCH, BECAUSE BY REASON OF THIS DIFFERENCE, THERE CAN BE NO RELATION BETWEEN THEM. FURTHER, AS IT WOULD NOT BE EXISTENT BEFORE, IT WOULD INVOLVE THE NOTION THAT THE EFFECT WAS NOT EXISTENT (WHICH IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE OPPONENT'S DOCTRINES).-SIMILARLY IF THERE WERE
REVERSAL OF CHARACTER', CONTINUANCE' AND 'DESTRUCTION (BROUGHT ABOUT RESPECTIVELY BY THE EMBELLISHMENTS OF
DECAY', STABILITY AND NON-ETERNALITY'),—THE OBJECTIONS BASED UPON THEIR BEING DIFFERENT OR NON-DIFFERENT', 'DECAY' AND THE REST, WOULD BE APPLICABLE TO THESE ALSO.-(1822-1828)
COMMENTARY.
Just like any other present Entity'-i.e. any other Entity whose * present character is not disputed.
* Also because it would be occasional';this also goes with it would be Present'.
The Reason here put forward cannot be regarded as Irrelevant. Because as a matter of fact that thing is called 'Present' which has been produced by the Causal Link (or Factor); and what is occasional must owe its birth to a Causal Factor ; because for that which has no cause, there are only two conditions possible---perpetual existence or non-existence; for the simple reason that its existence is not dependent upon anything else; hence what is occasional must have an existence that is brought about by a Causal Factor,