Verse 2079

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

विवादास्पदमारूढं विज्ञानत्वादतो मनः ।
अद्वयं वेद्यकर्तृत्ववियोगात्प्रतिबिम्बवत् ॥ २०७९ ॥

vivādāspadamārūḍhaṃ vijñānatvādato manaḥ |
advayaṃ vedyakartṛtvaviyogātpratibimbavat || 2079 ||

For these reasons, the cognition under dispute must be without a second,—being devoid of objective and the active agent,—because it is cognition,—like the reflection.—(2079)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Having set forth the original formal argument above (in the Commentary introducing Text 1965 on p. 550, Line 13) in the words—‘Every Cognition is devoid of both, apprehended and apprehender, because it is Cognition,—like the Cognition of the Reflection’;—and having so far established the invariable concomitance between the Probans and the Probandum in this reasoning, the Author sums up the whole position in the following:—[see verse 2079 above]

What is meant by the epithet ‘under dispute’ is that the subject of the Reasoning is the Cognition of persons with healthy eyes, etc.,—not all Cognitions;—while what is put forward as fche Probans—‘because it is Cognition’,—is Cognition in general; thus it is bhat the Probans is not part of the Proposition. ‘Being devoid of Objective and Active Agent’ qualifies ‘without a second’; that is, what is meant by its being ‘without a second’ is that it is ‘without Objective and Active Agent’; and not that no ‘second’ exists at all.

‘Like the Reflection’—The Object being spoken of as the Cognition, the term ‘Reflection’ stands for the Cognition of the Reflection,—Or the ‘Vati’ affix, in ‘pratibimbavat’ may be taken as coming after the Locative ending; then, as the Receptacle (denoted by the Locative), the Cognition itself becomes indicated.

The Probans cannot be regarded as ‘inadmissible’; because what is put forward is that character of the Cognition which consists in the ‘exclusion of other things’,—and not the very nature of ‘Cognition’.

Nor is the Probans ‘Contradictory’; because it is present wherever the Probandum is known to be present.—(2079)