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If the probandum b& worded " not being the effect of thesethreads" it yields a meaning other than the one intended by the Advaitin. The intended meaning is that the cloth is illusory. The present probandum points out that cloth is not an effect i.e., it is eternal or that it is an effect of another set of threads. Hence the defect. Further the probans is not present in objects like Akas'a which are not wholes. Thus there is partial non-establishment of the probans. XXXIII (298-311). The probans "being a whole" (ams'itva) of the Advaitin is sublated by perception. Perception points out that the cloth is in the threads. The Dvaitin resolves the probandum " being the counter-correlate of the absolute non-existence present in the threads" to mean one of two things, (1) either the non-existence of the cloth or (2) the non-existence of relation between the cloth and the threads. The first meaning is unacceptable to the Advaitin because he does not admit that the cloth is asat ; he holds that it is indeterminable. If the Advaitin urges as against this that there is only a denial of the reality of the cloth and not the affirmation of its non-existence, the Dvaitin replies that there is no middle ground between the real and the unreal. The phrase " being in the thread" is pointed out to be futile because it does not serve any purpose. The purpose may be said to be to avoid the defect of the establishment of the established. since on the logician's view, this cloth is the counter-correlate of the absolute non-existence present in another set of threads. But this is not acceptable to us since we do not at all admit absolute non-existence of this cloth ; otherwise the cloth would be unreal (asat). Again in the example i.e., " another cloth " the probandum is non-existent. The Advaitin turns round and pointe out that if the probandum is denied its non-existence is affirmed. 'the affirmation leads to the fact of the presence of another cloth in these threads, which is a part of 'the spbject. Such a deduction is nlft
