Tattvasangraha [with commentary]
by Ganganatha Jha | 1937 | 699,812 words | ISBN-10: 8120800583 | ISBN-13: 9788120800588
This page contains verse 2898 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 2898.
Verse 2898
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:
अन्यस्यापि प्रमाणत्वे सङ्गतिर्नैव कारणम् ।
तुल्यार्थानां विकल्पेन ह्येकस्यैव प्रमाणता ॥ २८९८ ॥anyasyāpi pramāṇatve saṅgatirnaiva kāraṇam |
tulyārthānāṃ vikalpena hyekasyaiva pramāṇatā || 2898 ||“Such corroboration (by other means of cognition) does not form the basis of the validity of other cognitions also; because among cognitions envisaging the same thing, there can be only option,—which means that validity can belong to only one of them.”—(2898)
Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):
‘Other Means of Cognitions’,—i.e. the Means of Cognition other than the Veda,—i.e. Sense-perception and the rest.
‘Tulyārthānām’—bearing upon one and the same thing.
‘To only one’—the one appearing first of all; the other being only reiterative.
The validity of this first Cognition cannot be due to the other subsequent cognitions; because these latter are themselves invalid, inasmuch as they apprehend what has been already apprehended.—(2898)