128 Veddnta-Sara, or Essence of the Veddnta. [No. 158. 



part. If you say, as the term Ganga, by entirely rejecting its own 

 meaning, points to the term bank; so also the terms that and thou 

 by entirely rejecting their literal meaning, point to the terms, thou 

 and that ; why then should the ellipsis be inadmissible : then we must 

 say, you are not right, because in the former sentence, if you did not 

 mention the term of bank, its meaning was not known, which therefore 

 required such an ellipsis; but in the latter sentence, by mentioning 

 the terms that and thou, their meanings are fully known, and conse- 

 quently there is here no necessity of knowing the meaning of one 

 word by another through the mentioned ellipsis. 



Nor is here the case of the not omitting designation admissible,* as in 

 the sentence — red runs. The sentence, which speaks of the moving of a 

 quality, is contradictory; but here by not omitting it in the ellipsis 

 of a horse, which is the place of this or other qualities, the contradic- 

 tion is removed, and the not omitting designation is proper ; but in the 

 great sentence, on account of the contradiction in the meaning, which 

 points out the unity of the invisible and visible Chaitanya, if you, not 

 dispensing with the invisibility and visibility, refer through the said 

 ellipsis to any other terms, the contradiction is not removed, and there- 

 fore this ellipsis cannot take place. But if you say, that the terms that 

 and thou, by rejecting the contradictory part of their own meanings, 

 point to the terms that and thou, as united with the other part, and if 

 you continue, why then do you not grant a partial ellipsis by another 

 means ? We must say, that this is not proper, because it is impossible 

 to grant an ellipsis for both, viz., for a part of its own meaning and for 

 another term by a single term ; and also because the meaning of the 

 terms being known, there is no necessity to know them by an 

 ellipsis. 



As therefore the sentence, this is that Devadatta, or its meaning on 

 account of the contradiction in a part of its meaning, which refers to 

 Devadatta, as being in the present and in the past time, by omitting 

 the part which refers to the contradictory terms, being in the present 

 and in the past time, the not contradictory part only, viz. Devadatta, 

 remains ; so in the great sentence, that art thou, or the meaning of 

 it, on account of the contradiction in a part of its meaning, which 



* This term means, that a word retains its literal meaning, while at the same 

 time it points to a term, which is not included in it. 



