Verse 81

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

नित्यैकबुद्धिपूर्वत्वसाधने साध्यशून्यता ।
व्यभिचारश्च सौधादेर्बहुभिः करणेक्षणात् ॥ ८१ ॥

nityaikabuddhipūrvatvasādhane sādhyaśūnyatā |
vyabhicāraśca saudhāderbahubhiḥ karaṇekṣaṇāt || 81 ||

If what you seek to prove is the fact that the world is created by a cause who is one and whose consciousness is eternal,—then there is absence of the probandum (in the instance); and it is ‘inconclusive’ also, since such things as the house and the like are found to be made by several makers.—(81)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

If (in order to avoid this) it be held that “the proposition sought to be proved is in a particular (not the General) form”,—then the answer is as given in the following Text:—[see verse 81 above]

Though this has been already explained under Text 73 above, yet it is asserted again with a view to clinching the argument.—The compound ‘Nityaikabuddhipūrvatvam’ may be taken to mean either ‘produced by one who is eternal and has a single Consciousness’, or ‘produced by one whose Consciousness is eternal and one’,—Absence of the Probandum;—i.e. in what has been cited as the Corroborative Instance per similarity;—also ‘inconclusiveness’,—i.e. of the Probans—(this has to be supplied).—“How?”—The answer is—Since such things as the Home, etc. etc.—(81)