Verse 396

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

अथापि सन्ति नित्यस्य क्रमिणः सहकारिणः ।
यानपेक्ष्य करोत्येष कार्यग्रामं क्रमाश्रयम् ॥ ३९६ ॥

athāpi santi nityasya kramiṇaḥ sahakāriṇaḥ |
yānapekṣya karotyeṣa kāryagrāmaṃ kramāśrayam || 396 ||

“Even of the eternal thing, there are certain auxiliaries,—on account of whose help, the former brings about the large number of its effects, in succession”.—(396)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

“Even though the Permanent Entity is always there, yet its auxiliaries come up to it only in succession; hence on account of these latter, the Permanent Entity will naturally produce its effects only in succession”.—(396)

The following Text answers this argument:—[see verses 397-399 next]