The Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

by Ganganatha Jha | 1937 | 699,812 words | ISBN-10: 8120800583 | ISBN-13: 9788120800588

This page contains verse 950 of the 8th-century Tattvasangraha (English translation) by Shantarakshita, including the commentary (Panjika) by Kamalashila: dealing with Indian philosophy from a Buddhist and non-Buddhist perspective. The Tattvasangraha (Tattvasamgraha) consists of 3646 Sanskrit verses; this is verse 950.

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

अथान्यथा विशेष्येऽपि स्याद्विशेषणकल्पना ।
तथा सति हि यत्किञ्चित्प्रपद्येत विशेषणम् ॥ ९५० ॥

athānyathā viśeṣye'pi syādviśeṣaṇakalpanā |
tathā sati hi yatkiñcitprapadyeta viśeṣaṇam || 950 ||

“If a qualification be regarded as such even in regard to the qualified thing which is totally different, then, everything can serve as the qualification (of everything).”—[Ślokavārtika-Apoha 90]—(950)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

If, for you, there were an assumption of something being a qualification, even in regard to a Qualified thing, which is unlike, and not like,—in accordance with the form of,—that Qualification,—then everything,—Blue and the rest,—could be the Qualification of everything; and there would be no restriction at all.—(950)

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