Verse 2726

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

आकारवति विज्ञाने सर्वमेतच्च युज्यते ।
अन्यथा हि विनष्टास्ते भासेरन्स्मरणे कथम् ॥ २७२६ ॥

ākāravati vijñāne sarvametacca yujyate |
anyathā hi vinaṣṭāste bhāseransmaraṇe katham || 2726 ||

All this is quite compatible with the view that cognitions have forms; otherwise, as they would be destroyed, how could they figure in the remembrance?—(2726)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Says the Opponent:—“Even so, as the Letters will have ceased long ago, they do not exist at the time of the comprehension; how then could they enter into the cumulative Cognition?”

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 2726 above]

Question:—“Why is it not compatible with the view that Cognitions have no forms?”

Answer;—‘Otherwise, etc. etc.’.

Thus the cumulative cognition that Kumārila has urged against the upholder of the Sphoṭa—that “when the last Letter has been cognised, there is a simultaneous Remembrance of all the rest, brought about by the impressions of these” [Ślokavārtika, Sphoṭa, 112, reproduced here under Text 2721, with a slight variation]—is true only in accordance with our view, not in accordance with the Mīmāṃsaka’s view, that Cognitions are formless. This is what is meant by the Text.—(2726)