Sarvadarshanasangraha 13.65

13.65

Being alone, which is differentiated in cows, horses, and the like by the related substrates—its difference being merely imagined—is the great universal, the [true] universal. A subordinate universal such as cowness is not ultimately different from it. Cow-being alone is cowness; no other recurrent [entity] appears. In the same way, one should say horse-being is horseness, and so forth. And thus, upon that very Being, the universal differentiated by distinctions such as cow, all words like 'cow' are established as expressive [terms]. And it is well known that the meaning of a nominal stem is Being. On the view that a verbal root expresses being (bhāva), since being is just Being (sattā), the meaning of a verbal root is indeed Being. Even on the view that a verbal root expresses action,