Verse 1488

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

उच्यते न द्वयादन्यत्प्रमाणमुपपद्यते ।
प्रमाणलक्षणायोगाद्योगे चान्तर्गमादिह ॥ १४८८ ॥

ucyate na dvayādanyatpramāṇamupapadyate |
pramāṇalakṣaṇāyogādyoge cāntargamādiha || 1488 ||

The reply to this is as follows:—in fact, there cannot be any form of cognition except the two (already described); because all the others that have been postulated either do not possess the character of the ‘form of right cognition’, or are included in these two.—(1488)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

‘Included in these’,—i.e. in the two Forms of Cognition already described.

What is meant is as follows:—The characteristic of Valid Knowledge is that it should be in conformity with the real state of things; and this is not present at all in any of the others that have been postulated; every case where this characteristic is present, is included in the said two, and hence the others have not been described separately.—(1488)