Verse 721-722

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

असारं तदिदं कार्यं प्रक्रियामात्रवर्णनम् ।
न तु तज्ज्ञापकं किञ्चित्प्रमाणमिह विद्यते ॥ ७२१ ॥
अक्षव्यापारसद्भावान्नह्यनन्तरभाविनः ।
सदादिप्रत्ययास्तिद्धा सङ्केताभोगतस्तु ते ॥ ७२२ ॥

asāraṃ tadidaṃ kāryaṃ prakriyāmātravarṇanam |
na tu tajjñāpakaṃ kiñcitpramāṇamiha vidyate || 721 ||
akṣavyāpārasadbhāvānnahyanantarabhāvinaḥ |
sadādipratyayāstiddhā saṅketābhogatastu te || 722 ||

All this has no essence in it; it is an elaboration of a mere theory; there is no evidence at all in support of it. as a matter of fact, the notions of ‘being’, etc. Are not found to proceed from the functioning of the sense-organs; they arise from a body of conventions.—(721-722)

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been argued (under Text 714, above) that the fact of the notions of ‘Being’, etc. being of the nature of Sense-perception is deduced from the presence of the operation of Sense-organs.—If, by the Reason here adduced, it is meant that the said notions follow immediately after the operation of the Senses,—then it cannot be ‘admitted’; because as they are of the nature of ‘determinate Cognitions’, the body of Conventions (bearing upon the verbal expression) must interpose (between the Sense-operation and the resultant Determinate Cognition).—(721-722)