因明入正理論疏 3.14

3.14

Question: "As the Grammarian (Śabdika) says: 'Your sound's impermanence should not be sound's impermanence, because of being produced, like a pot, a basin, etc.' Is not this second valid reason contradictory to the own-nature of the subject (dharmin-svabhāva-viparīta-sādhana)?" Answer: "That is not included as a fault. As when establishing that sound is impermanent, impermanence is the own-nature of the property; if the established reason turns out to establish that sound is permanent, it can be this fault. Now, citing both subject and property as property and subject, it is therefore not this fault; this is merely the category of futile objections through differentiation (jāti). The reason commits the fallacy of being unestablished for both (ubhaya-asiddha), because the reason 'being produced' is not accepted by either proponent or opponent to reside in impermanence, due to the difference between arising and ceasing. Even if they accepted it to reside therein, it would also commit the fallacy of being unestablished for one party (anyatara-asiddha). Furthermore, impermanence has no 'being produced' as something residing upon it; hence it also commits the fault of having an unestablished substratum (āśraya-asiddha). If someone were to object: 'Your sound's impermanence should not be sound's impermanence, because impermanence is accepted, like the impermanence of a pot.' This is also not a fault, because fallacious proofs do not possess this mark of fault. That sound has impermanence is the fundamental dispute; sound is the subject, not the intended meaning upon the property, so it cannot be called the fault of the particular property of the property. Nor is it included under the inconclusive through contradiction (viruddhāvyabhicārin), because it is not the fundamental dispute. If it were admitted that all the above statements were faults, then in all inferences there would be no valid reason; therefore, no fault is seen in the fallacious thesis, but all are fallacious refutations (dūṣaṇābhāsa), as will be understood below."