Sarvadarshanasangraha 10.39

English (machine translation) 10.39

Language: English

10.39

there, the position that it is a substance does not hold, because alternatives are impossible. Darkness, if it were a substance, would be either one among earth and the others, or something else. Not the first, for it would entail having as many qualities as that [substance] in which it is included has. Not the second, because since it lacks qualities, it cannot be a substance, and so its being a different substance is all the more impossible.

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The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English

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Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha — Mādhava, Sanskrit