Verse 375

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

यो हि भावः क्षणस्थायी विनाश इति गीयते ।
तं हेतुमन्तमिच्छामः पराभावात्त्वहेतुकम् ॥ ३७५ ॥

yo hi bhāvaḥ kṣaṇasthāyī vināśa iti gīyate |
taṃ hetumantamicchāmaḥ parābhāvāttvahetukam || 375 ||

That thing which, having a momentary existence, is called ‘destruction’,—this destruction we also admit as having a muse; it is only the other kind of destruction which we regard as without cause, on the ground of there being nothing else (which could be its cause).—(375)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Question.—“If that is so (and you admit what we have argued), then why have you held Destruction to be ‘without cause’?”

The Answer is—‘It is only the other kind etc. etc.’; i.e. there being nothing else,—apart from the Cause that brought the thing into existence,—coming later on, in the shape of the Bludgeon and such things,—that we regard the Destruction to be without cause.—(375)