Verse 3331

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

आभिप्रायिकमेतेषां स्याद्वादादिवचो यदि ।
तात्त्विकं सर्ववस्तूनां किमेभी रूपमिष्यते ॥ ३३३१ ॥

ābhiprāyikameteṣāṃ syādvādādivaco yadi |
tāttvikaṃ sarvavastūnāṃ kimebhī rūpamiṣyate || 3331 ||

If the assertion of these teachers regarding the ‘syādvāda’ and other doctrines be said to have been made with some (other) motive,—then (we ask)—what is that form of things which they hold to be real and true?—(3331)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

The following might be urged—“If these Teachers have taught false doctrines,—even so, it cannot be deduced from this that they are addicted to the false notions of things; because it is open to men to act contrary to their convictions,—the tendencies of men being peculiarly divergent; consequently, your Reason is ‘doubtful—hence—inadmissible’.”

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 3331 above]

If it be said that—“it is with some other motive that these Teachers have asserted the doctrines of Syādvāda, etc., which are against all canons of truth”;—then (our answer is that) let them assert the doctrines; we do not wish to prove that Vardhamāna, etc. are, by themselves, non-omniscient; all that we have done is to put forward the diversity of opinion among these Teachers, as a proof in answer to the question that you, taking your stand upon the mutually contradictory doctrines taught by Kapila and others, have asked—“If Buddha is omniscient, what is the proof that Kapila is not so?” Hence our Reason cannot be ‘inadmissible’.

Then again, if what has been asserted by them has some other motive behind it, then it behoves you to explain what, according to them, is the real nature of things.—(3331)