Verse 842-843

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

इहेति समवायोत्थविज्ञानान्वयर्शनात् ।
सर्वत्र समवायोऽयमेक एवेति गम्यते ॥ ८४२ ॥
द्रव्यत्वादिनिमित्तानां व्यतिरेकस्य दर्शनात् ।
धियां द्रव्यादिजातीनां नियमस्त्ववसीयते ॥ ८४३ ॥

iheti samavāyotthavijñānānvayarśanāt |
sarvatra samavāyo'yameka eveti gamyate || 842 ||
dravyatvādinimittānāṃ vyatirekasya darśanāt |
dhiyāṃ dravyādijātīnāṃ niyamastvavasīyate || 843 ||

“From the perception of the fact that the notion of ‘subsisting in this’, which arises out of ‘inherence’, is present in all cases, it is concluded that ‘inherence’ is one only; at the same time, from the perception of the fact that such bases as the universals ‘substance’ and the rest are absent in certain cases, it is concluded that the notions of these universals ‘substance’ and the rest are restricted in their scope.”—(842-843)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

In anticipation of the objection that—‘in that case, Inherence would vary with each object’,—Praśastapati offers the following explanation:—[see verses 842-843 above]

“The notion of ‘subsistence in this’, which is based upon Inherence, is found to appear in all cases in one and the same form, from which it follows that Inherence is one only. However, even though Inherence is one, the notions based upon the Universals ‘Substance’, etc. are found to appear in distinct forms as resting in distinct substrata; and thus they are found to be absent,—not present—in all cases; from this it is concluded that these Universals are distinct and diverse; so that there can be no admixture of the five Categories.”—(842-843)