Verse 425

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

ननु चार्थक्रियाशक्ता नभस्तामरसादयः ।
स्वज्ञानहेतुभावेन न चैते सन्ति भाविकाः ॥ ४२५ ॥

nanu cārthakriyāśaktā nabhastāmarasādayaḥ |
svajñānahetubhāvena na caite santi bhāvikāḥ || 425 ||

“Such things as the sky-lotus are found to be capable of fruitful activity, in so far as they serve as the cause of their own cognition; and yet these are not existent.”—(425)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The opponent now proceeds to show that ‘capacity for fruitful activity’ also cannot be the right differentia of ‘entity’,—as it would be too wide:—[see verse 425 above]

That is to say, things like the ‘sky-lotus’ are found to be capable of such fruitful action as the bringing about of such cognitions as ‘the sky-lotus’, ‘the sky-lotus’;—and yet they do not really exist; hence the definition that ‘Efficiency is the characteristic feature of the entity’ (as put forward by the Buddhist under Text 416) is found to be ‘too wide’.—(425)

The following Text supplies the answer to this:— [see verse 426 next]