Verse 1297

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

स्वसामान्यात्मनोर्युक्तं ज्ञानं चैकं न वेदकम् ।
सविकल्पान्यथाभावे प्राक्तनापरविन्न हि ॥ १२९७ ॥

svasāmānyātmanoryuktaṃ jñānaṃ caikaṃ na vedakam |
savikalpānyathābhāve prāktanāparavinna hi || 1297 ||

One and the same cognition cannot comprehend both the specific individuality and the universal; because, if such a cognition were ‘conceptual’, there could be no comprehension of the former,—on the other hand, if it were otherwise, there could be no comprehension of the latter.—(1297)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following might be urged:—“As a matter of fact, the subsequent cognitions envisage both (the Universal as well as the Particular), inasmuch as what they apprehend is the Particular as characterised by the Universal; so that they cannot be said to apprehend the Specific Individuality only”.

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 1297 above]

It is not right that one and the same Cognition should apprehend the Specific Individuality as well as the Universal.—Because, would that Cognition be Conceptual or Non-conceptual? If it were Conceptual,—Determinate,—then there could be no apprehension of the ‘former’,—i.e. the Specific Individuality.—If ‘otherwise’,—i.e. if it is Non-conceptual,—then there could be no apprehension of the ‘latter’—i.e. of the Universal.—(1297)