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Notes on Gaudapada-Karika pada therefore explains the point further. Why do we regard the objects in dream as 7? Because, their risaar (the capacity of serving some purpose ) is contradicted in another state. A real object can never change its characteristics or ta. The hearty meal that a person takes in the dream, is of no avail in the sia siate where he has to satis'y his hunger by having another meal. Now exactly the same is the situation about the objects in the ha state. The Twaar of a meal in the arra state is contradicted in the a state the dreamer goes on eating in a dream as though he had never tasted any meal in the una state ). So, a objects stand on the same level as the objects in that each is contradicted in the other state. So na objects also, being of a changeful Dature, with their sta securing 3799TUTin a different state, must be regarded as facer like the ag objects. Prof, Vidhusekhara reads स्वप्नऽपि प्रतिपद्यने for a विप्र तग्यते, and translates the first line as that the things have some purpose also in dream is known'. We fail to see what the F FTOHaar of objects has to do with the matter in question, Gaudapāda wants to prove that objects in the sta state are racor and he gives the reason that their maar is contradicted in dreams. Whether objects in a dream have a garaa or not is beside the point. (8) Prof. Vidhusekhara wants to cmend mgf FUAVA: into Srgai: A:, and confesses that the Kärika is not quite clear to him. There is no doubt that her FOTITA: is the genuine reading, if not for any other reason, merely on account of the fact that no one is likely to change अपूर्वाः स्थानिधर्माः into अपूर्व स्थानिधर्म:. Gaudapada's style is sometimes very terse and we have to fill in gaps to make the meaning clear, but that hardly justifies us in changing his words at will. Prof Vidhusekhara is unable to understand the Kariki, presumably because he has failed to grasp the meaning of the last Karika, The idea in the Karika is as follows:--- The objector says that it may be granted that the F a t of objects in the nga state (referred to as an in the last Kárika ) is contradicted in the dream-state if the same are seen there. But many a time the dreamer sees in a dream quite abnormal, fantastic and unprecedented objects which he has never seen in the we
