Verse 1546

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

अभावपक्षनिक्षिप्तसामान्यार्थप्रवादिनाम् ।
असिद्धिराद्यसाध्ये च प्रतिज्ञार्थैकदेशता ॥ १५४६ ॥

abhāvapakṣanikṣiptasāmānyārthapravādinām |
asiddhirādyasādhye ca pratijñārthaikadeśatā || 1546 ||

The reason (premise) here put forward is ‘not admissible’ for those who declare that anything cognisable in the form of ‘commonalty’ (or universal) falls tinder the category of the ‘non-existent and in the case of the former of the two probanda (put forth), the premiss becomes part of the proposition itself.—(1546)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The term ‘artha’ in the compound ‘Sāmānyārtha’, stands for ‘what is cognisable’.

As regards both the Propositions put forward,—the Buddhists hold that any such thing as ‘Commonalty’ (Universal) can have no character (existence); hence they cannot admit the statement that Commonalty is anything other than purely non-existent; so that to that extent, the Probans cited is ‘inadmissible

As regards the first Proposition,—that ‘Commonalty is an entity’,—in that connection, the Reason cited forms part of the Proposition itself; for instance, it is only an entity that can be ‘other than non-existent’; because the entity is only the ‘negation of the non-existent’; and it is this same that has been put forward, in other words, in the Premiss (Reason); and that same is the Probandum also; thus the Premiss forms part of the Proposition.—(1516)