Verse 248

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

सैवेति नोच्यते बुद्धिरर्थभेदानुसारिभिः ।
न चास्त्यप्रत्यभिज्ञानमर्थभेदेऽनुपाश्रिते ॥ २४८ ॥

saiveti nocyate buddhirarthabhedānusāribhiḥ |
na cāstyapratyabhijñānamarthabhede'nupāśrite || 247 ||

“People who follow up the diversity among the objects cognised do not speak of the cognition as ‘that same cognition’; nor is there non-recognition of it as ‘cognition so long as notice is not taken of the diversity among the objects.”—(248)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

People who follow up, etc.;—i.e. the Cognisers.—What this Text shows, by means of affirmative and negative premisses, is that the diversity in Cognitions is due only to diversity among the objects cognised.—Nor is there non-recognition, etc.; that is, there is recognition.—(248)

The following Text proceeds to answer the above arguments:—[see verse 249 next]