Verse 596-598

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

ननु ये लोकतः सिद्धा वासोदेहनगादयः ।
त एवावयवित्वेन भवद्भिरुपवर्णिताः ॥ ५९६ ॥
रक्तं वासोऽखिलं सर्वं निःशेषं निखिलं तथा ।
तत्रेच्छामात्रसंभूतमिति सर्वे प्रयुञ्जते ॥ ५९७ ॥
तथाविधविवक्षायामस्माभिरपि वर्ण्यते ।
सर्वं स्याद्रक्तमित्यादि निर्निबन्धा हि वाचकाः ॥ ५९८ ॥

nanu ye lokataḥ siddhā vāsodehanagādayaḥ |
ta evāvayavitvena bhavadbhirupavarṇitāḥ || 596 ||
raktaṃ vāso'khilaṃ sarvaṃ niḥśeṣaṃ nikhilaṃ tathā |
tatrecchāmātrasaṃbhūtamiti sarve prayuñjate || 597 ||
tathāvidhavivakṣāyāmasmābhirapi varṇyate |
sarvaṃ syādraktamityādi nirnibandhā hi vācakāḥ || 598 ||

It is only such things as are well known in the world,—such as cloth, body, mountain and so forth,—that have been mentioned by you as ‘composites’;—and as a matter of fact, all men make use of such expressions as ‘the cloth is red—all of it—whole of it—in its totality—completely’,—entirely on the basis of their whim.—Thus the use of verbal expressions being dependent upon the whim of the speaker, we also make use of the expression ‘all of the object would be reddened’; because there can be no check upon speakers.—(596-598)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It is just the well-known things,—like the Cloth, the Body and so forth,—that have been put forward by you as ‘composites’; and in regard to all these things the use of such terms as ‘one’ and ‘all’ is also well known; e.g. people are found saying ‘all of this cloth has been coloured’ and so forth.—Such being the whim of speakers,—when there is a desire to speak of the colouring of things like the cloth-piece which occupy a larger space, we also, on the basis of the ordinary notion, make use of the said expression, for the purpose of bringing out the incongruity involved in your view.

Further, tins criticism is applicable to yourself, who regard the gross object as one,—not to us; because we do not regard the gross object to be one.—(596-598)