The Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

by Ganganatha Jha | 1937 | 699,812 words | ISBN-10: 8120800583 | ISBN-13: 9788120800588

This page contains verse 1679 of the 8th-century Tattvasangraha (English translation) by Shantarakshita, including the commentary (Panjika) by Kamalashila: dealing with Indian philosophy from a Buddhist and non-Buddhist perspective. The Tattvasangraha (Tattvasamgraha) consists of 3646 Sanskrit verses; this is verse 1679.

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

नीरूपस्य हि विज्ञानरूपहानौ प्रमाणता ।
न युज्यते प्रमेयस्य सा हि संवित्तिलक्षणा ॥ १६७९ ॥।

nīrūpasya hi vijñānarūpahānau pramāṇatā |
na yujyate prameyasya sā hi saṃvittilakṣaṇā || 1679 |||

The object that is featureless being devoid of the form of cognition, cannot be a means or form of cognition; as this is always of the nature of cognition.—(1679)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

This’—i.e. Means or Form of Cognition.

That which, is not of the nature of the cognition of things cannot be a ‘Means or Form of Cognition’,—e.g. the Jar and such things;—and Negation is devoid of the nature of the cognition of things;—hence there is nonapprehension of the wider character (which must mean the absence of the less wide character).—(1679)

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