Verse 1624

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

भोजने सति पीनत्वमन्वयव्यतिरेकतः ।
निश्चितं तेन सम्बद्धाद्वस्तुनो वस्तुतो गतिः ॥ १६२४ ॥

bhojane sati pīnatvamanvayavyatirekataḥ |
niścitaṃ tena sambaddhādvastuno vastuto gatiḥ || 1624 ||

That there is fatness when there is eating is known with certainty through positive and negative concomitance; and hence the cognition of one thing follows from the other which is thus related to it.—(1624)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The relation of Cause and Effect between Fatness and Eating—as between Fire and Smoke,—is known with certainty; whereby it is right that there should be cognition of one thing—i.e. the Eating—(which is the Cause) from another thing—i.e. the Fatness, which is related to the former as its effect. But it cannot be right that the cognition of one sentence should proceed from another sentence which is not so related to it; as if there were such cognition, then there would be incongruities.—(1624)

The following Text shows what the incongruity would be:—[see verse 1625 next]