Verse 391

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

यदि तु व्योमकालाद्याः सन्तः स्युस्ते तथासति ।
नातिक्रामन्ति तेऽप्येनं क्षणभङ्गं कृता इव ॥ ३९१ ॥

yadi tu vyomakālādyāḥ santaḥ syuste tathāsati |
nātikrāmanti te'pyenaṃ kṣaṇabhaṅgaṃ kṛtā iva || 391 ||

If ākāśa, time and such things are existent, then, being so, they cannot escape from being momentary,—just like the created things.—(391)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Thus it has been shown that if Ākāśa and the rest are regarded as uncreated, they must be regarded as being non-existent; and it is now going to be shown that if they are regarded as existent, they must be momentary:—[see verse 391 above]

‘Kṛtāḥ’—stands for ‘kṛtakāḥ’, ‘created things’.

This indicates ‘being’, ‘existence’, as the Reason (for regarding things as momentary).—(391)

This Reason is stated more explicitly:—[see verses 392-394 next]