Verse 1275

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

विशेषाद्धि विशिष्टं तत्सामान्यमवगम्यते ।
तद्ग्राहकमतः प्राप्तं विज्ञानं सविकल्पकम् ॥ १२७५ ॥

viśeṣāddhi viśiṣṭaṃ tatsāmānyamavagamyate |
tadgrāhakamataḥ prāptaṃ vijñānaṃ savikalpakam || 1275 ||

The universal is recognised as ‘distinguished’ from the particular; hence the perception of it would have to be regarded (under the opponent’s contention) as conceptual.—(1275)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

That is understood to be the Universal which is ‘qualified’—i.e. distinguished’—from the Particular.; if it were not so, then there would be no Universal at all, if it were not excluded—distinguished—from the Particular.—Such being the case, the Perception that apprehends this Universal, as distinguished from the Particular, becomes ‘Conceptual’, as it apprehends something that is qualified. And yet, according to your view, this cognition is not conceptual; hence your Reason is itself Inconclusive.—(1275)

The said Sumati himself, anticipating the objection that his own Reason becomes ‘Inconclusive’ by the case of the Universal, has answered it. This answer is shown in the following—[see verse 1276 next]