Verse 1030

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

यथैवाविद्यमानस्य न भेदः पारमार्थिकः ।
अभेदोऽपि तथैवेति तेन पर्यायता भवेत् ॥ १०३० ॥

yathaivāvidyamānasya na bhedaḥ pāramārthikaḥ |
abhedo'pi tathaiveti tena paryāyatā bhavet || 1030 ||

In the case of what does not exist, any difference that may be there cannot be real; so also would be its non-difference; and hence the words would certainly be synonymous.—(1030)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been argued (under 925, by Kumārila) that—“Words that are denotative of diverse Universals and those that are denotative of Particulars would all be synonyms”.

This is answered as follows:—[see verse 1030 above]

Apoha, being featureless, has no form; and hence it is said that there is no difference among Apohas; similarly it is said that there is no non-difference among them. Thus there being no really non-different thing, how can the contingency of all words being synonymous be urged against us?—(1030)

This same idea is explained more clearly in the following—[see verse 1031 next]