0260 Verse 326

Original

ननु द्विरूपमित्येव नानार्थविनिबन्धनः ।
निर्देशो रूपशब्देन स्वभावस्याभिधानतः ॥ ३२६ ॥

nanu dvirūpamityeva nānārthavinibandhanaḥ |
nirdeśo rūpaśabdena svabhāvasyābhidhānataḥ || 326 ||

The assertion that ‘a certain thing is of dual form’ can be based on the existence of several things,—because the term ‘form’ connotes nature.—(326)

Kamalaśīla

If theng is ‘impartite’, then, to speak of it as ‘of dual form’ is a contradiction in terms; because such an assertion can be based only upon the existence of several things; because when a thing is spoken of as ‘dvi-rupa’, ‘of dual form’, what is meant is that ‘it has two forms—two natures’; and one and the same thing cannot have ‘two natures’; as that would deprive it of its one-ness. What you have proved is only that there are two forms or characters, and not that there is a single entity with two forms; and that for the simple reason that the characters of being one and being many are mutually contradictory and preclusive.—(326)