Indian Philosophy v2.c24.s5.166

v2.c24.s5.166

³ Siddhāntamuktāvali, pp. 79 and 80. The Pūrva Mīmāṃsā and the Vedānta admit the independence of the argument by comparison, though they define it in a different way. When we meet with a gavaya in the forest, we not only have a cognition of its likeness to the familiar cow, but also a cognition of the likeness of the cow to the gavaya. The latter is due to comparison, since the cow is not actually perceived while the gavaya is.