0639 Verse 883

Original

जातिसम्बन्धयोः पूंर्व व्यासतः प्रतिषेधनात् ।
नानन्तराः प्रकल्प्यन्ते शब्दार्थास्त्रिविधाः परे ॥ ८८३ ॥

jātisambandhayoḥ pūṃrva vyāsataḥ pratiṣedhanāt |
nānantarāḥ prakalpyante śabdārthāstrividhāḥ pare || 883 ||

The universal and the connection having been already rejected in detail,—the other three kinds of ‘import of words’ no longer remain possible.—(883)

Kamalaśīla

Having thus explained, the impossibility of Convention regarding Specific Individualities, the Author proceeds to explain its impossibility regarding the other three—Universal, Connection of the Universal and That Which is Endowed with the Universal (as mentioned under 871):—[see verse 883 above]

‘The other’,—i.e. barring ‘Specific Individuality’, the three—(1) the Universal, (2) the Contact of the Universal, and (3) the One Endowed with the Universal.—As regards the Universal and its Connection, these simply do not exist; and hence in regard to what is endowed with the Universal, also no Convention can be possible; as all naming is done only in reference to Universals; and that which is so endowed can only exist in the form of Specific Individuality; so that the objections urged against this last are equally applicable to the other also.

The Universal forms the denotation of words—says Kātyāyana. Substance forms the denotation of words,—says Vyāḍi.—Both (Universal and Substance) form the denotation of words,—says Pāṇini.—All these views become discarded by what has been said above; because the ‘Universal’ can have no connection,—‘Substance’ is of the nature of ‘Specific Individuality’; and hence the objections urged against this latter remain applicable to it.—(883)