Verse 2012-2013

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

स्वरूपवेदनायान्यद्वेदकं न व्यपेक्षते ।
नचाविदितमस्तीदमित्यर्थोऽयं स्वसंविदः ॥ २०१२ ॥
व्यापृतं ह्यर्थवित्तौ च नात्मानं ज्ञानमृच्छति ।
ततः प्रकाशकत्वेऽपि बोधायान्यत्प्रतीक्षते ॥ २०१३ ॥

svarūpavedanāyānyadvedakaṃ na vyapekṣate |
nacāviditamastīdamityartho'yaṃ svasaṃvidaḥ || 2012 ||
vyāpṛtaṃ hyarthavittau ca nātmānaṃ jñānamṛcchati |
tataḥ prakāśakatve'pi bodhāyānyatpratīkṣate || 2013 ||

It means that for the cognition of its own form, the cognition does not need any other thing; and yet it is not uncognised;—this is what is meant by ‘self-cognition—(2012)

“While functioning towards the apprehending of the object, the cognition does not touch itself; hence, even though it is illuminative, it needs something else for its own apprehension.”—[Ślokavārtika-śūnyavāda, 184].—(2013)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

[verse 2012]:

The following text raises an objection to the statement just made—from the view-point of kumārila:—[see verse 2013 above]

[verse 2013]:

This is how Kumārila argues—“Though Cognition is of the nature of Light, yet for its own manifestation, it needs something else; and it does not touch—apprehend—itself; as it is wholly taken up in the manifesting (apprehending) of the object; and when it is engaged in one thing, it cannot operate over another thing, without abandoning the former.”—(2013)