Verse 359

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

न चानंशे समुद्भूते भावात्मन्यात्महेतुतः ।
तदात्मैव विनाशोऽन्यैराधातुं पार्यते पुनः ॥ ३५९ ॥

na cānaṃśe samudbhūte bhāvātmanyātmahetutaḥ |
tadātmaiva vināśoऽnyairādhātuṃ pāryate punaḥ || 359 ||

When a certain thing that comes out of its cause is without parts,—the ‘destruction’ that would be imposed upon it by other causes must be of the same nature.—(359)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following might be urged:—“When the thing is born out of its cause, it is not in its complete form; hence what it obtains from another cause is another character in the shape of ‘Destruction’,”

This is answered in the following—[see verse 359 above]

A single thing cannot have two natures, by virtue of which it could be produced in parts; on the contrary, the thing is without parts; and when a thing is produced from its Cause, it must be produced in its entire form; how then can another nature be imposed upon it, later on, by other Causes? In fact, what is not produced at the time that a thing is produced, cannot form the nature of that thing; because ‘non-difference’, ‘sameness’, implies complete identity of condition. Hence that which comes about at a later time, in the form of ‘Destruction’, must be a different ‘nature’ (character); and how can this, which is thus different, belong to the thing itself? Hence there is nothing in this theory.—(359)

If the other alternative be accepted that ‘the Destruction produced is something different from the thing’, even so, the cause of the destruction of the thing would be useless. This is what is shown in the following—[see verse 360 next]