Verse 1494

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

अन्वयो नच शब्दस्य प्रमेयेण निरूप्यते ।
व्यापारेण हि सर्वेषामन्वेतृत्वं प्रतीयते ॥ १४९४ ॥

anvayo naca śabdasya prameyeṇa nirūpyate |
vyāpāreṇa hi sarveṣāmanvetṛtvaṃ pratīyate || 1494 ||

“Nor cast the concomitance of the word with the object inferred (probandum) be ascertained; the concomitance of all things is recognised only by their functioning.”—(1494)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been shown that (in the case of Verbal Cognition), there can be no subsistence in the Subject (i.e. the Minor Premiss); the following Text shows that there is no possibility of concomitance (between the Probans and the Probandum, as expressed in the Major Premiss):—[see verse 1494 above]

‘Ascertained’‘—recognised with certainty.

‘By their functioning’,—i.e. by existence, by being present.

What is meant is that it is only what exists that can be concomitant, not what does not exist.—(1494)

The same idea is further elucidated:—[see verse 1495 next]