[ (6-21) Here, to start with, the author by a broad division, enunciates category (tat002) स्वतन्त्रमस्वतन्त्रं चव द्विविधं तत्त्वमिष्यते । [ स्वतन्त्रं अस्वतन्त्रं च द्विविधं तत्त्वं इष्यते ] THE SELF-DEPENDENT AND THE DEPENDENT GUIDED) TO BE OF TWO KINDS Category, tat८०८, is that which is not superimp0sed This means, category is that which is the object of valid knowledge. In this definition of att८, there is 10 room for such objections as are advanced against [The subject matter of the monograph, as its name
- TATTVASANKHYANA' implies , is the classified emu
meration of the categories. In the text tatu42 is used for category and is defined as “the non-superimposed When a rope is mistaken for a smake, the superimposed Smake appearing in illusion is not a tat00 as it is Sublated by a subsequent cognition of the form “this is Imot a smake but a rope'. By thus defining tatu८ the objection raised against such definition as t८2902b742u42 stat07 (thatmess is tatछ८) is avoided. It is also a. definition which the Māyāvādims have to accept. So in dialectical discussions with then the Tattva.vādim has a definition of category acceptable to both. Tr. ] 1. Category is of two kinds. This is *broad division' (ऽd7 294 toutbhāgaः). The self-dependent and the dependent. This is *broad
