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defect of non-established qualification; so it is stated in an indirect manner. The valid cognition of Devadatta i.e., the subject, destroys its anterior non-existence as well as the positive nescience. To secure the intended meaning we ha·e to exclude anterior nonexistence ; so the following words " being other than anterior non-existence" are used. The probans is "being ·alid knowledge". This is in the subject i.e., Devadatta's valid cognition. l'he example is the undisputed valid cognition. Let us take one Rama's valid cognition; there is the probans, "being a valid cog· nition ". There is the presence of the probandum also there. Rama's valid cognition destroys what is beginningless and other than the anterior non-existence of Devadatta's valid cognition. The Dvaitin criticises the Advaitin's inference by erecting a counter-inference yielding conclusions that are not acceptable and desirable to the Advaitin. The commentator states the inference in detail ; Caitra's desire has for its material cause something other than that which produces it and is unsublatable, because it is a desire, like Maitra's." This inference is unacceptable to Advaita. This inference of the Advaitin is from the Advaita work, the Vivarat;a. It is urged to establish the positive nature of nescience. Jayatirtha states the inference in full and points out the significance and function of the words therein. The function of the word "removable by itself" is to make it inapplicable to adr~ta i.e., unseen potency ; unseen potency prevents the effect from coming into existence though the causes be present. So valid cognition cannot remove the unseen potency, because it prevents the rise of the said cognition itself. The words "present in its own locus " are used to avoid the applicability of the definition to cognisedness i.e., jnatata. The Bhliga school of Mlmamsa recognises that cognition of an object is inferred from the cognisedness that is found- in the objects cognised. This special quality is said to be gen!Jrated in the object by the cognition at the momemt of the cognition. The attribute " cognistdness " is found in objects, and not in cognitions. So the fords " present in its own locus "
