‘So how does the world designate things as conventions?’ To explain this it is said:
The parts and whole, the traits and qualified, the wish and he who wants,
The features, featured, fuel and fire, and all pairs like these are when
Examined like the cart shown to exist in none of seven ways.
And yet, according to the general consensus they exist. (6.167)
Just as a pot is the whole while clay and so forth are its parts; the pot is the qualified while the dark pattern of flames and so forth are traits; and the pot is the featured, while its features are being pot-bellied, having a spout, a long neck and so forth. This similarly applies to blankets and so forth. To wish is to have a craving. He who wants is the support for the wish. Fire is that which burns; fuel that which is burnt.
It’s based on the parts that a whole is imputed, and based on the whole that parts are imputed, as in the example of the chariot. So too with the rest, including fire in relation to the fuel, and fuel in relation to fire. These are worldly conventions that cannot be subjected to analysis.
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Chapter 1: Pramuditā
