Verse 851

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

व्यङ्ग्यव्यञ्जकसामर्थ्यभेदोऽपि समवायतः ।
नान्यतस्तु स नित्यानामुत्पादानुपपत्तितः ॥ ८५१ ॥

vyaṅgyavyañjakasāmarthyabhedo'pi samavāyataḥ |
nānyatastu sa nityānāmutpādānupapattitaḥ || 851 ||

The difference in the capacity to manifest and to be manifested also is based upon inherence itself; it cannot be due to anything else; because there can be no ‘producing’ of things that are eternal.—(851)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

“In that case the Restriction may be due to the limitations relating to the capacity to manifest and be manifested”.

Answer:—[see verse 851 above]

Substances have been held to be the manifester of the Universal ‘Substance’,—and this on the strength of Inherence itself; because it is on account of the fact that the Universal ‘Substance’ inheres in a particular substance that it is said to be manifested by it.

‘It cannot be due to anything else’ i.e. to any such circumstance as the production of the character capable of bringing about an idea, which has been postulated by the Buddhist. Because Inherence has been held to exist even in eternal things like ‘Being’ and the like,—and it is not right that there should be any ‘production’ of what are eternal.—(851)

The same line of argument is further supported in the following:—[see verse 852 next]