Verse 1172

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

न चक्षुराश्रितेनैव रूपं नीलादि वेद्यते ।
किन्तु श्रोत्राश्रितेनापि नित्येनैकेन चेतसा ॥ ११७२ ॥

na cakṣurāśritenaiva rūpaṃ nīlādi vedyate |
kintu śrotrāśritenāpi nityenaikena cetasā || 1172 ||

[The supposition is]—“It is not by the cognition through the eye alone that the blue and other colours are cognisable,—but also by the one eternal cognition, through the ear also.”—(1172)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The dull-witted man might suppose that Colour is cognisable also by the Eternal Cognition through the Ear;—and it is this supposition that is ‘excluded’ (negatived) by the sentence ‘Colour is cognisable by the

Cognition through the Eye’; the meaning being that—‘Colour is cognisable by Cognition through the Eye only, not by Cognition through the Ear and other organs’.—(1172)