Verse 923

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

(असत्यपि च बाह्येऽर्थे वाक्यार्थः प्रतिभा) यथा ।
पदार्थोऽपि तथैव स्यात्किमपोहः प्रकल्प्यते ॥ ९२३ ॥

(asatyapi ca bāhye'rthe vākyārthaḥ pratibhā) yathā |
padārtho'pi tathaiva syātkimapohaḥ prakalpyate || 923 ||

“even in the absence of the corresponding external object there is intuition expressed by the sentence; similar may be the case with what is expressed by the word also; why should the apoha be postulated at all?”—[Ślokavārtika-Apoha 43]—(923)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Then again, this Apoha that you have postulated as the Import of Words,—has been held to be denoted by the word as taken out of a Sentence; but what is expressed by the Sentence must be of the nature of Intuition; as has been declared in the following—“Hitherto has been discussed the denotation of the Word as taken out of a Sentence; but what is brought about first of all is what is expressed by the Sentence, which has been called Intuition”.—In this connection we have the following Text:—[see verse 923 above]

Just as, even in the absence of an external object denoted by the Word,—you describe the meaning of the Sentence to be of the nature of Intuition, hot of the nature of ‘Apoha’,—even so, the meaning of the word,—like the meaning of the Sentence,—also may be of the nature of Intuition. Under the circumstances, why is any such thing as ‘Apoha’ postulated at all? That is to say, the Import of both Sentence and Word may be of the positive character.—(923)