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Svayambhūstotra
quality is their jar-ness, and the specific quality is their individual size, shape or mark. Dravya refers to a general rule or conformity. That which has the dravya as the object is the general standpoint (dravyārthika naya). Paryāya means particular, an exception or exclusion. That which has the paryāya as the object is the standpoint of modifications (paryāyārthika naya). Whatever condition or form a substance takes, that condition or form is called a mode. Modes partake of the nature of substance, and are not found without the substance.
परस्परेशान्वयभेदलिङ्गतः प्रसिद्धसामान्यविशेषयोस्तव । समग्रतास्ति स्वपरावभासकं यथा प्रमाणं भुवि बुद्धिलक्षणम् ॥
(13-3-63) सामान्यार्थ - हे भगवन् ! जिस प्रकार इस भूतल पर स्व और पर दोनों को झलकाने वाला ज्ञानस्वरूप जो प्रमाण प्रसिद्ध है उसी प्रकार आपके मत में परस्पर एक दूसरे की अपेक्षा से जो सामान्य तथा विशेष का ज्ञान होता है इसी से ही भले प्रकार सिद्ध होने वाले सामान्य तथा विशेष धर्मों की पूर्णता होती है।
O Lord Vimalanātha! You had asserted that as the valid knowledge (pramāna) or the apprehension of reality, which encompasses all attributes of an object, illumines the self as well as the others, and is well accepted in this world, in the same way,
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