Verse 2459

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

धूमसामान्यभागोऽपि नैव(.........) ।
(...............) सिद्धसाधनम् ॥ २४५९ ॥

dhūmasāmānyabhāgo'pi naiva(.........) |
(...............) siddhasādhanam || 2459 ||

As regards the ‘universal aspect of smoke’...... [lacuna in: the text]..... your argument is ‘superfluous’.—(2459)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been argued by the Mīmāṃsaka, under Text 2128, that—“Everything that does this has been found to be permanent, like the universal? aspect of Smoke, etc. etc.”

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 2459 above]

For proving the idea of the Word being one only, the Inferential Reasons that have been adduced are such that if a contrary conclusion is established, there has not been shown any reason for sublating such a conclusion consequently all those Reasons are Inconclusive.—(2458)

What is spoken of as the ‘Inferential Indicative’ (Probans) is the ‘Universal’, which is only the Thing as ‘excluded from heterogeneous things—and this is not eternal; consequently your Corroborative Instance is devoid of the Probandum—(2459)

It has been argued by the Mīmāṃsaka under Text 2131, that—“If the? one-ness of the Jar, which is urged, etc. etc.”

The answer to this is the same, in regard to Letters also.

This is what is pointed out in the following:—[see verses 2460-2461 next]