Verse 715

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

अनुमानबलेनापि सत्त्वमासां प्रतीयते ।
विशेषप्रत्ययो येन निमित्तान्तरभाविकः ॥ ७१५ ॥

anumānabalenāpi sattvamāsāṃ pratīyate |
viśeṣapratyayo yena nimittāntarabhāvikaḥ || 715 ||

“The existence of these is cognised by means of inference also: a distinctive notion must be due to a different cause.”—(715)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following Text seeks to prove the existence of ‘Specific Individualities’ by means of Inference also:—[see verse 715 above]

‘A distinctive notion’—a notion of a kind different from that ofngs like Substance, etc.

‘Due to a different cause’,—whose birth is due to other causes.

The inference may be thus formulated:—When one notion is different in form from another, it must be due to a cause other than the latter,—like the notion of ‘Colour’ in regard to the Cloth, the Leather and the Blanket;—of this same kind is the notion of ‘being’ in regard to Substance, etc.;—hence this is a natural reason [for assuming a different cause for it, in the form of the ‘Universal’].—Such is the view of the other Party (the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika).—(715)

The sense of the same argument is shown by setting forth the arguments propounded by Bhāvivikta:—[see verses 716-720 next]