Verse 641

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

तद्द्रव्यसमवेताच्चेदेकत्वात्परिकल्प्यते ।
गुणादिष्वेकविज्ञानमेकार्थसमवायतः ॥ ६४१ ॥

taddravyasamavetāccedekatvātparikalpyate |
guṇādiṣvekavijñānamekārthasamavāyataḥ || 641 ||

“The notion of one in regard to cognitions is assumed on the basis of the one-ness subsisting in that same substance, on account of their subsisting in the same thing”,—if this is asserted [then the answer is as in the following text].—(641)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The Opponent may urge the following—“The notion is described as ‘figurative’, not on the basis of similarity’,—but what is meant is that the notion of ‘one’, etc. in regard to Quality, Action, Subsistence and so forth is based on the ground that these subsist in the same substratum as the ‘oneness’, etc. subsisting in the Substance that forms their own substratum”.

This is the explanation anticipated and set forth in the following:—[see verse 641 above]

The answer to the above is provided in the following:—[see verses 642-643 next]