History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c22.s1.16

c22.s1.16

¹ *Kim tarhi? Niyater ev' eti . . . . N' api kālaḥ kartā, tasy' aikarūpatvāj jagati phala-vaicitry'-ānupapatteḥ. Kāraṇa-bhede hi kārya-bhedo bhavati, n'ābhede. Śilāṅka, loc. cit.* The commentator continues very tersely: *Tathā viruddha-dharm'-ādhyāsaḥ* that variations in fact occur, and that they must have a cause. Thus the kālavādin has committed the fallacy of ascribing contrary qualities to Time, since the cause must itself be variable. He simultaneously asserts the uniformity of Time and the variety of its effects.