Verse 1058

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

शबलापत्यतो भेदे बाहुलेयाश्वयोः समे ।
तुरङ्गपरिहारेण गोत्वं किं तत्र वर्त्तते ॥ १०५८ ॥

śabalāpatyato bhede bāhuleyāśvayoḥ same |
turaṅgaparihāreṇa gotvaṃ kiṃ tatra varttate || 1058 ||

The difference from the variegated cow being equally present in the black cow and the horse, why is it that the universal ‘cow’, as differentiated from the horse, subsists in that?—(1058)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been argued above (under Text, 938, by Kumārila) that—“The difference from the Variegated Cow is equally present in the Black Cow and in the Horse, etc. etc”.

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 1058 above]

It behoves you to say—when the Horse is equally different from the Variegated Cow and the Black Cow,—how it is that the Universal ‘Cow’, as differentiated from the Horse, subsists in the Variegated and other Cows, and not in the Horse?—(1058)

The reply to this may be as follows:—“What is there to be said here? It is clear that it is only the Variegated and other Cows—and not the Horse—that are capable of manifesting the Universal ‘Cow’; hence the said Universal subsists in the Cows, not in other things. Nor will it be right to urge the question—‘why the Variegated and other Cows alone have the capacity to manifest the said Universal’, Because such restriction is due to the very nature of things; and there can be no complaint against the nature of things; as all such restrictions are due to the series of causes that have brought about thengs.”

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 1059 next]