Verse 526

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

......................................... ।
........................................... ॥ ५२६ ॥

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........................................... || 526 ||

[526 is missing in the printed text; the commentary upon it however is available, as follows]:—

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The phrase ‘held to be the Cause’ (of Text 525) is to be construed here also.—What is meant is that for you also, when the causal character would belong to the Thing as equipped with the Operation, it would be so without the intervention of a further Operation; so that there would be no Corroborative Instance available for you.—(526)

Then again, apart from its existence, there can be no other ‘Operation’ of the Thing, for the simple reason that if it were there, it would be perceived, and yet it is not perceived.—

This is explained in the following—[see verse 527 next]