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

[Ananta Chaitanya [Sarasvati]]

Namaste Venkat ji,

On Wed, Jul 31, 2024, 6:37 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Ananta Chaitanya ji
>
>>
>> I'm afraid, here too, the prior knowledge of hare without horns, and
>> horns without hare is needed.
>>
> Yes indeed. But I am not referring to the horn *of a *hare, I am
> referring to an akhaNDa asat vastu - the hare's horn.
>
True that the avacchedaka is not a particular...

To know that such a hare's horn does not exist, merely knowing a hare and a
> horn is not sufficient.
>
There was no intention to say that it is sufficient, but that both units of
knowledge are needed too. The pratiyogi of the context is made up of both
the objects of units of knowledge. The abhAva expressing na~n is going with
the vishiShTa along with the visheShaNa.

Kind rgds,
--Ananta Chaitanya
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