 Perhaps, the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika philosopher could claim that it is not the object o that is the part of the awareness-episode’s nature, but only the relation R. This doesn’t satisfy Śrīharṣa. He points out that since R could be a relation with multiple instances and therefore could hold between a different awareness-episode e* and a different object o*, the fact that R is part of the nature of e wouldn’t explain why it constitutes an awareness of o. Perhaps, we could say that R also possesses a certain being-of-that-ness in virtue of which it is merely a relation between o and the awareness-episode e. This proposal, as Śrīharṣa seems to suggest, tries to explain the being-of-that-ness that the awareness-episode possesses, by positing another kind of being-that-ness in the relation R that connects the awareness-episode e with its object o. Quite predictably, therefore, Śrīharṣa asks whether this second variety of being-of-that-ness is part of the nature of the relation R, or external to it.