0322 Verse 407

Original

भेदाभेदविकल्पस्य प्रत्येकं प्रतिषेधनात् ।
द्विरूपोऽतिशयस्तस्य व्यस्तो भवति वस्तुनः ॥ ४०७ ॥

bhedābhedavikalpasya pratyekaṃ pratiṣedhanāt |
dvirūpo’tiśayastasya vyasto bhavati vastunaḥ || 407 ||

Each of the two alternatives—that the two are different and non-different—having thus been severally rejected, the idea that the condition is both (different and non-different) also becomes discarded.—(407)

Kamalaśīla

The Author next takes up the views that both (the Permanent Thing and the Conditions) are both different and non-different:—[see verse 407 above]

The rejection of each of the two alternatives naturally implies the rejection of both alternatives; as the two alternatives together do not differ from the two alternatives treated severally.—Further (between two contradictories), the acceptance or rejection of one must imply the rejection or acceptance, respectively, of the other; hence it cannot be right to regard the existing thing as being both different and non-different (from the Conditions); as the same thing cannot be both affirmed and denied at the same time; otherwise it would cease to be one.—(407)

The following Text shows that this has already been explained before, in course of the examination of the doctrine of the ‘Pudgala’ (section F, chapter VII) and the rest.—[see verse 408 next]