0073 Verse 81

Original

नित्यैकबुद्धिपूर्वत्वसाधने साध्यशून्यता ।
व्यभिचारश्च सौधादेर्बहुभिः करणेक्षणात् ॥ ८१ ॥

nityaikabuddhipūrvatvasādhane sādhyaśūnyatā |
vyabhicāraśca saudhāderbahubhiḥ karaṇekṣaṇāt || 81 ||

If what you seek to prove is the fact that the world is created by a cause who is one and whose consciousness is eternal,—then there is absence of the probandum (in the instance); and it is ‘inconclusive’ also, since such things as the house and the like are found to be made by several makers.—(81)

Kamalaśīla

If (in order to avoid this) it be held that “the proposition sought to be proved is in a particular (not the General) form”,—then the answer is as given in the following Text:—[see verse 81 above]

Though this has been already explained under Text 73 above, yet it is asserted again with a view to clinching the argument.—The compound ‘Nityaikabuddhipūrvatvam’ may be taken to mean either ‘produced by one who is eternal and has a single Consciousness’, or ‘produced by one whose Consciousness is eternal and one’,—Absence of the Probandum;—i.e. in what has been cited as the Corroborative Instance per similarity;—also ‘inconclusiveness’,—i.e. of the Probans—(this has to be supplied).—“How?”—The answer is—Since such things as the Home, etc. etc.—(81)