[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [advaitin] Re: pratiyogI-jnAna being mandatory for abhAva-jnAna

[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Venkat ji,

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> I don't think that is the case - the pratiyogi of the absence of hare's
> horn is neither the hare nor the horn.
>

Surely the pratiyogi C is different from A and B, but it is not without the
individual knowledge units of A and B.

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> If A stands for hare and B stands for the horn, the hare's horn is
> not A∩B, but an independent entity C, so ~C (the absence of C) is not
> dependent on the knowledge of A and B.
>


For C to be a valid word construct, A and B have to be valid word
constructs. Else one can claim that hare's horn does exist because it is
completely different from any combinations of meanings of hare and horn!
Ergo, I surmise that the two unknown padArthas cannot give rise to their
sambandha when the respective padas come together in a sentence samasta or
as vyasta. The impossibility of such sambandha is also known, not without
the knowledge of these individual units. If that is not the case, how would
you see the vigrahavAkya of शशशृङ्ग?

Further, in शशशृङ्ग, what do you consider the avacchedaka for shRnga as?
shasha, shashashRngatva or something else? (Just trying to apply the
ongoing study of dinakarI here :) )

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
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