Verse 70

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

गोशब्दवाच्यतामात्राद्दिगादीनां विषाणिता ।
संसिद्ध्येदन्यथा ह्येष न्यायो नाश्रीयते यदि ॥ ७० ॥

gośabdavācyatāmātrāddigādīnāṃ viṣāṇitā |
saṃsiddhyedanyathā hyeṣa nyāyo nāśrīyate yadi || 70 ||

The mere character of ‘being denoted by the term go’ (as a general character) might prove the ‘presence of horns’ in the quarters and other things (which are all denoted by the term ‘go’),—ip the reasoning were not adopted in a different form.—(70)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

If a general character could bring about the cognition of a thing even without being invariably concomitant with it, then absurdity could result;—this is what is shown in the following Text:—[see verse 70 above]

As a matter of fact, Heaven, Quarters, Speech, Eyes, Bays, Thunderbolt, Earth and Water,—all these things are ‘denoted by the term Go’; if, on the basis of this general character of ‘being denoted by the term Go’, it were sought to be proved that a particular Cow of variegated colour has horns,—then on the basis of the same character, it would be possible to infer the presence of Horns in Heaven, etc. also.—(70)