Sarvadarshanasangraha 10.9

10.9

In this regard, the procedure of this treatise is threefold: enunciation, definition, and critical examination. Now, if it is objected, "Given that division should be mentioned, resulting in a fourfold [procedure], why is a threefold [procedure] stated?"—do not think thus. Because division is of the nature of a specific enunciation, it is included in enunciation itself. There, enunciation is: "Substance, quality, action, universal, particular, and inherence: these are the six categories alone." What is the reason for this order? It is stated: Substance, which is primary as the locus of all categories, is enunciated first. Next, quality, because by its condition of qualityness it occurs in all substances. After that, action, because of its parity [with quality] in possessing a universal. Next, the universal, which resides in that triad. After that, the particular, which is a substratum of inherence. At the end, inherence, which remains.