The Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

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

This page contains verse 1249 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 1249.

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

भ्रान्तिस्तदभिमानश्च तद्व्यक्तं च निरन्तरम् ।
तदेव चार्थविज्ञानयौगपद्यमतः स्फुटम् ॥ १२४९ ॥

bhrāntistadabhimānaśca tadvyaktaṃ ca nirantaram |
tadeva cārthavijñānayaugapadyamataḥ sphuṭam || 1249 ||

That the said idea (of the simultaneity or the other conceptual content and the cognition) [cannot] be wrong has just been made clear. and this same simultaneity between the object and the cognition is also quite clear for that same reason.—(1249)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following Text shows that the idea of the simultaneous appearance of the two cognitions is entirely mistaken:—[see verse 1249 above]

‘It cannot be wrong’—such is to be the construction along with what has gone before.

Its idea—i.e. the idea of the two appearing at one and the same time.

As a matter of fact, an idea is regarded as wrong when it is annulled by a valid cognition to the contrary; in the present case there is no such cognition to the contrary, by virtue of which the idea in question could be regarded as wrong.

“How do you know that there is no such cognition to the contrary?”

Answer:—This has just been made clear;—that the cognition of the object before the man’s eyes appears at the same time as the mind is attracted by something else—is clearly perceived; and it is this cognition that is called ‘Sense-perception’;—wherefore then is there anything wrong in this?—(1249)

It is not only that there is nothing to prove that the idea of the said simultaneity is wrong,—in fact, there is proof to the contrary (to show that it is not wrong). This is what is shown in the following—[see verses 1250-1253 next]

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