Verse 3007

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

अथापि बाधकाभावं विना प्रामाण्यमिष्यते ।
क्वचिदाद्ये तथाभावे प्रद्वेषः किंनिमित्तकः ॥ ३००७ ॥

athāpi bādhakābhāvaṃ vinā prāmāṇyamiṣyate |
kvacidādye tathābhāve pradveṣaḥ kiṃnimittakaḥ || 3007 ||

If validity is admitted in some cases, even when there is no absence of the sublating cognition,—then why should there be hostility against the initial cognition?—(3007)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following Text proceeds to confirm the view that the Opponent’s view involves an Infinite Regress:—[see verse 3007 above]

If, in order to avoid Infinite Regress, it be held that in some cases there is validity, even though the sublating Cognition is not absent,—then, in the case of the initial Cognition also, there need be no dependence upon the absence of sublation; and in this way, all Cognitions would be equally valid.—(3007)