OBJECTION :- Now why is conchshell-silver (sult; r८gjata) with similar ones (appearing in illusion) not tattou८ ? It cannot be said that the thing (d८7 ) or silvermess (rajatatu८) is not an object of valid know ledge. The same may be said of the commection bet ween the7. If it be said that in the entity, conchshe]] there is not this connection of silvermess we say * may 170t be . Merely because Devadatta is 10t 17 the house he does not cease to be an object of valid knowledge. ( ANSWER :-This objection may be advanced against those who hold that the superimposed silver exists elsewhere. In the view that the absolutely unreal silver owing to defect, is superimp0sed on the conch-shell there is not this fault [of admitting the superimposed silver to be an object of valid knowledge. R.T. ] [The faulty organ (of sense) in contact with conch-shell pro duces the cognition which objectifies the same conch shell as the absolutely non-existent silver. N.S., p 1ine 10. ] . 48 By this the following is also refuted. *The pot which becomes red after the application of heat cognised as a red pot before heating when it is black, by one who has a peculiar eye-disease, may be tatu0. REPLx :—Though being an object of valid know ledge pertains to the p0t in the future state, it does not pertain to it in the prior state. [This is the meaning : Though the pot after becoming red by heating will be an object of valid knowledge when apprehended then as a red pot, it is not an object of correct knowledge before for then the person with the eye disease has the apprehension 1. dh07 5 =74jata (silver), R.T. vide s.T. and v.T. also
