Verse 557

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US-P18.147ab ।US-P18.147cd ॥

In plain words

How, on your account, could one thing turn into many simply because the names differ? And if a word means nothing more than the ruling out of everything it is not, how does that ruling-out ever apply to a cow?

Close to the Sanskrit

How, on your view, could there be manyness of the one through differences of names? If exclusion of the things that are distinct [is what a word means], how is its functioning with regard to a cow?