The Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

by Ganganatha Jha | 1937 | 699,812 words | ISBN-10: 8120800583 | ISBN-13: 9788120800588

This page contains verse 101-102 of the 8th-century Tattvasangraha (English translation) by Shantarakshita, including the commentary (Panjika) by Kamalashila: dealing with Indian philosophy from a Buddhist and non-Buddhist perspective. The Tattvasangraha (Tattvasamgraha) consists of 3646 Sanskrit verses; this is verse 101-102.

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

इहोच्यते तयोरेकक्रियाकाले समस्ति किम् ।
तदन्यकार्यनिष्पत्तिसामर्थ्यं यदि वा न तत् ॥ १०१ ॥
यद्यस्ति सर्गकालेऽपि द्वयमप्यपरं भवेत् ।
एवमन्यस्य सद्भावे द्वयमन्यत्प्रसज्यते ॥ १०२ ॥

ihocyate tayorekakriyākāle samasti kim |
tadanyakāryaniṣpattisāmarthyaṃ yadi vā na tat || 101 ||
yadyasti sargakāle'pi dvayamapyaparaṃ bhavet |
evamanyasya sadbhāve dvayamanyatprasajyate || 102 ||

The answer to this is as follows at the time that the two are performing one act (of creating or maintaining or dissolving),—is their capacity to perform the other acts present? or is it not present?—If it is present, then at the time of creation, the other two acts also should come about;—thus whenever any one of the acts would be there, the other two would have to be there!—(101-102)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The term ‘tayoḥ’, ‘the two’, stands for Primordial Matter and God;—at the time of performing one act;—i.e. from among the three acts of creating, maintaining and dissolving,—at the time that any one is being done, is their capacity to do the other two acts present in them or not?—These are the two alternatives. If the capacity is there, then, inasmuch as at the time of creating, their Cause would be present in its untrammelled form, the other two acts—of maintaining and dissolving—should also come about, just like the act of creating; so that at the time that a thing would be maintained in existenceits creation and dissolution also should be there! And at the time of dissolution, there should be its maintained existence and creation! This certainly cannot be right. Because when the three conditions are mutually nugatory (and incompatible) it is not possible that they should co-exist in the same object.—(101-102)

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