Verse 1567

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

तथा ह्यश्रुततत्संज्ञो गवयस्योपलम्भने ।
तन्नाम श्रुतमस्येति न ज्ञातुं कश्चन प्रभुः ॥ १५६७ ॥

tathā hyaśrutatatsaṃjño gavayasyopalambhane |
tannāma śrutamasyeti na jñātuṃ kaścana prabhuḥ || 1567 ||

If a man has never heard of the name concerned, then, on seeing the gavaya, he would never be able to have the idea that ‘I had heard the name of this animal’.—(1567)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Aviddhakarṇa has asserted as follows:—“Of the Name, the Man has a general (vague) notion through Verbal Cognition,—and it is the definite idea of it that is brought about by Analogy”.

This view is set forth in the following—[see verse 1568 next]