Verse 573

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

संज्ञापकप्रमाणस्य विषये तत्त्वमिष्यते ।
षण्णामस्तित्वमिति चेत्षड्भ्योऽन्यस्ते प्रसज्यते ॥ ५७३ ॥

saṃjñāpakapramāṇasya viṣaye tattvamiṣyate |
ṣaṇṇāmastitvamiti cetṣaḍbhyo'nyaste prasajyate || 573 ||

If it be said that—“the existence of the six categories is held to be the property subsisting in what is an object made known by a means of right cognition”,—then, in that case, this would have to be distinct from the six that you postulate.—(573)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

In the following text, the Author anticipates the answer of the Opponent:—[see verse 573 above]

“What is meant is that the ‘existence’ of the Six Categories is a distinct property consisting in their being cognisable of such Means of Right Cognition as apprehend existing things:—so that there is no discrepancy in our Premiss”;—this is the sense of the Opponent’s answer.

The answer to this is—‘In that case, etc., etc.’;—‘Distinct’—i.e. a distinct Category; i.e. it becomes a seventh ‘Category’; and this would militate against the doctrine of the ‘Six Categories’.—(573)