Verse 91

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

कर्तृत्वप्रतिषेधाच्च सर्वज्ञत्वं निराकृतम् ।
बोद्धव्यं तद्बलेनैव सर्वज्ञत्वोपपादनात् ॥ ९१ ॥

kartṛtvapratiṣedhācca sarvajñatvaṃ nirākṛtam |
boddhavyaṃ tadbalenaiva sarvajñatvopapādanāt || 91 ||

By the refutation of god’s creatorship, his omniscience also is understood to be set aside by the same; as it is on the strength of ‘creatorship’ that the argument for ‘omniscience’ has been based.—(91)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been argued (in Text 54) that “the fact of His being the creator of all things having been established, His omniscience is proved without effort—The answer to this is provided by the following Text:—[see verse 91 above]

You regard God to be omniscient only on the strength of His being the Creator of all things; hence by the refutation of His Creator ship, His omniscience also becomes set aside ‘without effort—(91)