The Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

by Ganganatha Jha | 1937 | 699,812 words | ISBN-10: 8120800583 | ISBN-13: 9788120800588

This page contains verse 2866 of the 8th-century Tattvasangraha (English translation) by Shantarakshita, including the commentary (Panjika) by Kamalashila: dealing with Indian philosophy from a Buddhist and non-Buddhist perspective. The Tattvasangraha (Tattvasamgraha) consists of 3646 Sanskrit verses; this is verse 2866.

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

बाधकप्रत्ययस्तावदर्थान्यत्वावधारणम् ।
सोऽनपेक्षप्रमाणत्वात्पूर्वज्ञानमपोहते ॥ २८६६ ॥

bādhakapratyayastāvadarthānyatvāvadhāraṇam |
so'napekṣapramāṇatvātpūrvajñānamapohate || 2866 ||

“The sublating cognition is always in the form of the cognition of the thing concerned as different from what is envisaged in the previous cognition; and as in this form, it is not dependent for its validity upon anything else, it sets aside that previous cognition.”—(2866)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following might be urged—Though the sublating or annulling cognition may not have its validity dependent on something else,—yet it is only when that Cognition is recognised as itself unsublated that it can stamp invalidity upon another Cognition; not otherwise.

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 2866 above]

Sets aside’—discards; i.e. rejects as invalid.—(2866)

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