Verse 3628-3631

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

यद्यदिच्छति बोद्धुं वा तत्तद्वेत्ति नियोगतः ।
शक्तिरेवंविधा तस्य प्रहीणाचरणो ह्यसौ ॥ ३६२८ ॥
युगपत्परिपाट्या वा स्वेच्छया प्रतिपद्यते ।
लब्धज्ञानं च सित्त्वो(?)हि सक्षणैर्ह्यादिभिः प्रभुः ॥ ३६२९ ॥
यद्वा षोडशभिश्चित्तैश्चतुःसत्यस्वभावकम् ।
क्रमेण वेत्ति विज्ञेयं सर्वं सर्वविदित्यतः ॥ ३६३० ॥
तत्र तादृशि विज्ञाने क्रमेण भवति प्रभोः ।
लवमात्रोऽपि नापेक्ष्यः किमङ्गाब्दशतावधिः ॥ ३६३१ ॥

yadyadicchati boddhuṃ vā tattadvetti niyogataḥ |
śaktirevaṃvidhā tasya prahīṇācaraṇo hyasau || 3628 ||
yugapatparipāṭyā vā svecchayā pratipadyate |
labdhajñānaṃ ca sittvo(?)hi sakṣaṇairhyādibhiḥ prabhuḥ || 3629 ||
yadvā ṣoḍaśabhiścittaiścatuḥsatyasvabhāvakam |
krameṇa vetti vijñeyaṃ sarvaṃ sarvavidityataḥ || 3630 ||
tatra tādṛśi vijñāne krameṇa bhavati prabhoḥ |
lavamātro'pi nāpekṣyaḥ kimaṅgābdaśatāvadhiḥ || 3631 ||

Whatever he wishes to know he comes to know it without fail;—such is his power, as he has shaken off all evil. He knows things either simultaneously or in succession, just as he wishes; and having secured the knowledge of all things, he becomes the lord.—(3628-3629)

Or, he knows all that is knowable, in the shape of the ‘four truths’, by means of his sixteen ‘cognitions’, in succession, and on that account he is omniscient. When this cognition of the lord thus appears in succession—not even a single moment has to be awaited; what to say, my friend, of a hundred years!—(3630-3631)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

[verses 3628-3629]:

There are some people who hold that there are Persons who become omniscient at will; under their opinion also, there is no incongruity in what has been said above.—This is what is shown in the following:—[see verses 3628-3629 above]

The following Texts point out that there is no incongruity even under the view that the Lord’s Cognition of things is successive:—[see verses 3630-3631 above]

[3630-3631]:

‘By means of Sixteen Cognitions’—i.e. by Forgivenesses’ and ‘Cognitions’: There are eight ‘Forgivenesses’,—in the shape of the Forgiveness of Pain, Dharma, Knowledge and so forth;—and there are eight ‘Cognitions’, in the shape of the cognition of Pain, Dharma, Knowledge and so forth;—all this is clear from the declaration that—‘The Truth is divided sixteen -fold’,

‘Even a single moment’.—The lowest measure of time is called ‘Kalā 120 Kalās make one Kṣaṇa; 60 Kṣaṇas make one Lava.

‘My friend’—is a form of address.

‘Abda’—is year.’—(3630-3631)