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TATTVASANGRAHA : CHAPTER XXIV.
TEXT (2317). "IF THE REASON THAT IS PUT FORWARD IS ONLY amenability to the sense-organs,-THEN IT IS CLEARLY RECOGNISED AS fallacious, IN VIEW OF THE Universal WHICH HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED ".[Shlokavārtika-ETERNALITY OF WORDS, 343-344).
(2317)
COMMENTARY Only amenability to the sense-organs ', --without any such qualification As being a product and so forth.
If the Reason (Probans) is put forward in this unqualified form, then it becomes 'fallacious', 'Inconclusive', in view of the Universal' which has been established before ; because no 'negative concomitance' would be available to confirm the Premiss),- (2317)
The following might be urged :-Even though, by reason of the other party (Vaishesika) admitting the Universal, the negative concomitance is not available, yet as the Bauddha, who is the main opponent of the Mimamsaka, does not admit the Universal, the said negative concomitance would be quite available; how then can the Probans be said to be Inconclusive ?
The Mimāmsaka's answer to this is as follows:
TEXT (2318). "JUST AS THE REASON CEASES TO BE A TRUE REASON IF IT DOES NOT RESIDE IN THE SUBJECT ', ACCORDING TO THE OTHER PARTY,SO ALSO, IF IT IS DEVOID OF AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE CON COMITANCE",- (Shlokavārtika-ETERNALITY OF WORDS,
344-345).—(2318)
COMMENTARY.
The principle is that that Probans alone is able to prove or disprove which is admitted by both parties'; hence, that Probans which is not admitted by any one of the two parties to reside in the Subject ' becomes 'fallacious'; in the same manner, it becomes fallacious, if either party does not admit its affirmative and negative concomitance (with the Probandum).
The construction is anvayavyatirēkayoh asiddhayoh, if the affirmative and negative concomitance are not admitted ',-(2318)
Question: If that Probans alone can prove or disprove which is admitted by both parties, then, how is it that you yourself have urged the inconclusiveness of a Reason, against the Buddhist, on the basis of the Universal (which is not admitted by him)?
Answer :