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able and the designing refers simply to Devadatta, in which there is 

 no contradiction, after the contradictory terms of that and this or 

 their corresponding meanings, being in the past and in the present 

 time, have been dispensed with ; thus also in the great sentence the 

 relation of the designable and the designing, refers simply to the soul? 

 in which there is no contradiction, after the contradictory terms that 

 and thou, or their corresponding meanings, viz. having the attributes 

 of invisibility and visibility, have been dispensed with. 



This category is called the partial designation. In the great sen- 

 tence the meaning is not consistent,* as it is in the literal meaning of 

 the sentence — the lotus is blue. In this case, as in the term blue, the 

 quality of blue, and in the term lotus, the thing lotus, exclude other 

 qualities and things, as for instance white, and cloth ; and as the unity 

 of the mutual connexion of predicate and subject, or the unity of the 

 one, determined by the other, are in correspondence with each other, 

 because there is no contradiction from another argument, (in this case) 

 the meaning of the sentence is consistent ; but if you think that, in the 

 great sentence, by excluding the mutual differences of the term that, 

 which means the invisible Chaitanya (soul,) and of the term thou, 

 which means the visible Chaitanya, the meaning of the sentence does 

 agree, viz. the connexion between predicate and subject, or of the unity 

 of the one, determined by the other, we must maintain, that the mean- 

 ing of the sentence is not consistent, because it involves the contra- 

 diction of the invisibility, &c. Nor is here an omitting designation 

 (ellipsis,) as in the sentence — on the Ganga lives the herdsman, con- 

 sistent. As there is in this case a perfect contradiction in the meaning 

 of the sentence, which expresses a connexion between the support, and 

 what is to be supported, viz. the Ganga and the herdsman, the ellipsis 

 is called for, because there is a propriety in the designation of the bank 

 of the Ganga, by entirely dispensing with the meaning of the sentence. 

 In the great sentence, however, as there is no contradiction in one part 

 alone of the meaning which shows the unity of the invisible and 

 visible Chaitanya, the ellipsis cannot take place, because another 

 ellipsis would be improper without also dispensing with the other 



* The author, after having discussed the three categories of relation, refutes 

 three other forms of relation, which at the first glance may appear to express the 

 meaning of the great sentence. 



