0190 Verse 240

Original

एकसन्तानसम्बन्धज्ञात्रहम्प्रत्ययत्वतः ।
ह्यस्तनाद्यतनाः सर्वे तुल्यार्था एकबुद्धिवत् ॥ २४० ॥

ekasantānasambandhajñātrahampratyayatvataḥ |
hyastanādyatanāḥ sarve tulyārthā ekabuddhivat || 240 ||

“All (I-notions) of yesterday and of to-day must have the same object,—because they are i-notions belonging to the cogniser connected with one and the same ‘chain’,—like any single cognition.”—(240)

Kamalaśīla

‘All I motions of yesterday and of to-day’,—this states the Subject in regard to which the Probandum is to be predicated;—‘must have the same object’,—this states the Probandum;—the meaning is that they should have one and the same object.—The Probans is stated thus:—Being such I-notions as belong to a Cogniser who is connected with one and the same Chain,—such as that of a single person like Devadatta. The mere character of being I-notion is present in the ī-notions of other persons also; hence if the Probans had been stated in that form, it would be ‘Inconclusive’; hence in order to avoid that contingency, the Probans has been stated as qualified by the qualification of ‘pertaining to a cogniser connected with one and the same Chain’. ‘Like any single Cognition’,—this is the Corroborative Instance; it means ‘like any single intended Cognition among these same I-notions’.—(240)