anirvacaniya.

 The anir vacanī ya

 theory holds that the connection between a wrongly perceived thing (the snake) and a real thing (the rope) cannot be described as real or unreal. If the cognition of a snake were real, no subsequent cognition of a rope would be able to replace it. But, similarly, one could not say that the cognition of the snake is unreal: In that case no error would occur at all. The answer to the conundrums ‘inexpressibility’: the snake in the cognition is neither real nor unreal, it is indeterminable

To be continued