Verse 2606-2607

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

पर्यायेण च यः कश्चिद्भिन्नदेशाद्व(न्व्र?)जत्य(न्न?)सौ ।
सिद्ध्यति क्षणभङ्गित्वान्नान्यथा(स्य गति)र्भवेत् ॥ २६०६ ॥
पूर्वदेशावियुक्तस्य स्वभावस्यानुवर्त्तनात् ।
नहि देशान्तरप्राप्तिः स्थैर्ये तस्योपपद्यते ॥ २६०७ ॥

paryāyeṇa ca yaḥ kaścidbhinnadeśādva(nvra?)jatya(nna?)sau |
siddhyati kṣaṇabhaṅgitvānnānyathā(sya gati)rbhavet || 2606 ||
pūrvadeśāviyuktasya svabhāvasyānuvarttanāt |
nahi deśāntaraprāptiḥ sthairye tasyopapadyate || 2607 ||

When a man passes from place to place, one after the other,—it is so because he is in a perpetual flux; if it were not so, there could be no such ‘going’; if he remained fixed, permanently, then the man, not dissociated from his previous position, would continue to remain there; and as such he could not get at another place.—(2606-2607)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

It has been argued by the Mīmāṃsaka, under Text 2227, that—“Just as the single person, Devadatta, passing from place to place, one after the other, does not become different, so the Word-Sound also does not differ simply because it is heard in several places”.

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verses 2606-2607 above]:

In the case of the non-eternal thing, the only ‘movement’ possible is in the shape of being born in another place; not so in the case of the eternal thing, which, unless it abandons its character as associated with one place, can never ‘go’ to another place.—This is what is pointed out by the Text 2607.—(2606-2607)