Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

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

This page contains verse 1235-1236 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 1235-1236.

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

एतदागूर्य सकलं नामजात्यादिवर्णनम् ।
मतयोः स्वान्ययोरित्थमुपादानमिहाकरोत् ॥ १२३५ ॥
तेभ्योऽस्माकभियानेव भेद इत्येवमब्रुवन् ।
अन्ये त्वित्यादिकं वाक्यमनन्तरमदो जगौ ॥ १२३६ ॥

etadāgūrya sakalaṃ nāmajātyādivarṇanam |
matayoḥ svānyayoritthamupādānamihākarot || 1235 ||
tebhyo'smākabhiyāneva bheda ityevamabruvan |
anye tvityādikaṃ vākyamanantaramado jagau || 1236 ||

It was in view of all this that the assertion of ‘name, universal and the rest’ was made; and herein the teacher made mention of his own view as also the view of others; without indicating the difference by actually saying that ‘my own view is so and so’, it was for this reason that he subsequently added the statement that ‘others have held, etc.’.—(1235-1236)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following Text explains what Diṅnāga really means by asserting the Conceptual Content in two forms.—[see verses 1235-1236 above]

As to which of the two views is to be accepted and which rejected has been already indicated by us when we showed that even ‘association with Universal, etc.’ is invariably concomitant with ‘association with Name’,

The assertion of Name, etc.’—this is to be construed with ‘akarot’, ‘made’ (in the second line).

The assertion of his own view as also the view of others has been made for the purpose of showing which is to be accepted and which to be rejected.—(1235-1236)

Question:—“How then are the words of Diṅnāga in his Nyāyamukha to be construed?”

Answer:—[see verse 1237 next]

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