The Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

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

This page contains verse 2003 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 2003.

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

नहि तद्रूपमन्यस्य येन तद्वेदने परम् ।
संवेद्येत विभिन्नत्वाद्भावानां परमार्थतः ॥ २००३ ॥

nahi tadrūpamanyasya yena tadvedane param |
saṃvedyeta vibhinnatvādbhāvānāṃ paramārthataḥ || 2003 ||

The form of any other thing is not such that upon its cognition, something else would become cognised; because, in reality, things are different from one another.—(2003)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following might bo urged Just as there is self-cognition of the Cognition itself, so would there be cognition of. the External Thing also, without there being an apprehender and an apprehended”.

The answer to that is as follows:—[see verse 2003 above]

Though it has been assumed that there is the single form of ‘Entity’—as differentiated from ‘non-entity’—which is common to all things,—yet in reality, they are all different among themselves; hence there is no ‘one-ness’ among them. This is what is meant by the phrase—‘in reality’,—(2003)

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