Verse 881

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

एतेनैव प्रकारेण व्यक्त्याकृत्योर्निराकृतिः ।
स्वलक्षणात्मतैवेष्टा तयोरपि यतः परैः ॥ ८८१ ॥

etenaiva prakāreṇa vyaktyākṛtyornirākṛtiḥ |
svalakṣaṇātmataiveṣṭā tayorapi yataḥ paraiḥ || 881 ||

In this same manner the individual and the configuration also may be rejected; inasmuch as others regard both these also as being of the nature of ‘specific individuality’.—(881)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Of these three—Individual, Configuration and Universal,—the idea of the Individual and the Configuration, being denoted by words, should be taken as rejected by the foregoing rejection of the idea of the Specific Individuality forming the denotation of words.—This is what is shown in the following—[see verse 881 above]

That is to say, the rejection of the Universal will come later.

‘Rejection’—as forming the ‘import’ of words.

“Why?”

Inasmuch as ‘both these’—Individual and Configuration,—are held by others to be of the nature of ‘Specific Individuality’; so that just as ‘Specific Individuality’ cannot be denoted by Words, because there can be no Convention bearing upon it,—so also, in regard to these two also, there can be no Convention; hence the Reason cannot be said to be either ‘Unproven’, or ‘Inconclusive’.—(881)