Verse 221

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

इत्थमात्माप्रसिद्धौ च प्रक्रिया तत्र या कृता ।
निरास्पदैव सा सर्वा वन्ध्यापुत्र इव स्थिता ॥ २२१ ॥

itthamātmāprasiddhau ca prakriyā tatra yā kṛtā |
nirāspadaiva sā sarvā vandhyāputra iva sthitā || 221 ||

Thus the ‘soul’ being something ‘not-proyed’, the entire fabric (of conceptions) that has been adopted in regard to it, becomes baseless like ‘the son of the barren woman’.—(221)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Thus, any such thing as the ‘Soul’ being found to be precluded by all means of Right Cognition, and hence ‘not proved’, ‘not admissible’—the ‘entire fabric (of Conceptions)’,—such as its being the doer, the experiencer and the like,—that has been set up by you, turns out to be like ‘the Son of the Barren Woman’,—entirely baseless. Hence no criticism is made of all this fabric; as it becomes demolished by the demolition of its very basis (in the shape of the Soul).—In what manner our view is not open to the criticism that it involves ‘the destruction of what has been done and the appearance of what has not been done’ [i.e. the contingency of the Person not experiencing the effects of his own deeds, Karma, and experiencing those of the deeds not done by him]—is going to be explained under the Chapter dealing with the ‘connection between Action and its Effects’ (i.e. Chapter 9).

End of the Examination of the ‘Nyāya’ Doctrine of the ‘Self’.