Verse 487

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

तस्मात्प्राक्कार्यनिष्पत्तेर्व्यापारो यस्य दृश्यते ।
तदेव कारणं तस्य न त्वानन्तर्यमात्रकम् ॥ ४८७ ॥

tasmātprākkāryaniṣpattervyāpāro yasya dṛśyate |
tadeva kāraṇaṃ tasya na tvānantaryamātrakam || 487 ||

“Thus that alone can be regarded as the cause of an effect whose action is found to be there before the production of that effect; and not mere immediate sequence.”—(487)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Having thus shown that mere immediate sequence cannot be the basis of the causal relation, the Opponent sums up his own view by way of recapitulation:—[see verse 487 above]

‘Not mere immediate sequence’,—‘can be the basis of the notion of Cause-effect’—this has to be regarded as understood.—(487)