  The idea is that a cow cannot exist unless the universal cowhood exists, and that it is in this sense that cowhood is located in the cow. (The same relation is claimed to occur between non-repeatable ‘qualities’ (guṇa) and substances, a whole and its parts, and the basic differentia and the atoms.) Spatial location, on the other hand, involves a quite different relation, namely contact (saṃyoga). In this way, the term ‘location’ is disambiguated.