The Tattvasangraha [with commentary]

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

This page contains verse 2926 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 2926.

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

साधितक्षणभङ्गं हि सर्वं वस्तु सविस्तरम् ।
नित्यं च जन्यते नेति कारणापेक्षिताऽस्य का ॥ २९२६ ॥

sādhitakṣaṇabhaṅgaṃ hi sarvaṃ vastu savistaram |
nityaṃ ca janyate neti kāraṇāpekṣitā'sya kā || 2926 ||

(a) It has been demonstrated in detail that all things are in ‘perpetual flux’;—(b) As for the eternal thing, it is never produced; what need then could it have of a cause?—(2926)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following Text points out how the assertion of the Eternality of Cognitions is nullified by reasoning:—[see verse 2926 above]

If Cognition is eternal, then it cannot be right to hold that it needs a Cause; this is pointed out in the words—‘As regards the eternal thing, etc. etc.’—It is only what is produced that needs something else as its Cause; what is eternal, however, can never be produced; what need can that have of it?—(2926)

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