Verse 2185

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

यद्यपि व्यापि चैकं च तथापि ध्वनिसंस्कृतिः ।
अधिष्ठाने तु सा यस्य स शब्दं प्रतिपद्यते ॥ २१८५ ॥

yadyapi vyāpi caikaṃ ca tathāpi dhvanisaṃskṛtiḥ |
adhiṣṭhāne tu sā yasya sa śabdaṃ pratipadyate || 2185 ||

“Even if the auditory organ (as consisting of the indivisible ākāśa) were all-pervading and one,—the embellishment due to articulation could affect only the material substratum of that organ; hence that man alone hears the sound the substratum of whose organ is affected by that embellishment.”—(Ślokavārtika—eternality of words, 68-69].—(2185)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

‘Vyāpi’—‘Ekam’—qualify ‘Śrotram’ (understood).

Even so, that man alone, no other, hears the Sound whose ‘Ear-drum’, as the substratum of the Auditory Organ—is affected by the embellishment due to articulation.

What is meant by this is that the embellishment affects the substratum, not the Auditory Organ;—and as the substratum varies with each person, the objections in question do not apply at all.—(2185)