Qualities and action inhere in substances. A quality is always a possession of something. At the first moment of its existence, the substance has neither any quality nor any action. Quality presumes substance but substance does not presuppose quality. Qualities and actions both exist in some substance that is supporting them. The category of inherence is only one. It is the relation between two inseparable facts. The parts of a whole object cannot be separated if it is still to remain the object that we know it to be. Samavaya is the quality inhering in something. Fire has a radiant form; this radiance cannot be separated from it. There is samavaya when a substance combines with quality and there is samavaya again when substance and actions combine. The quality and the actions cannot be separated from the substance. This article is a stub. You can enrich by adding more information to it. Send your Write Up to content@indianetzone.com |