0438 Verse 568

Original

कषायकुङ्कुमादिभ्यो वस्त्रे रूपान्तरोद्रयः ।
पूर्वरूपविनाशे हि वाससः क्षणिकत्वतः ॥ ५६८ ॥

kaṣāyakuṅkumādibhyo vastre rūpāntarodrayaḥ |
pūrvarūpavināśe hi vāsasaḥ kṣaṇikatvataḥ || 568 ||

As a matter of fact, such things as the red dye and the saffron produce a new colour in the cloth, on the destruction of the previous colour; because the cloth itself is momentary (and its previous colour has perished along with it).—(568)

Kamalaśīla

Another example cited (by the Opponent) is the notion of the ‘cloth’ in reference to the Bed Cloth.—The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 568 above]

What happens in the case cited is that the Cloth itself being momentary, its previous White Colour is destroyed, and a new Colour comes into existence through other causal conditions; and when this new Colour is perceived, there appears, on the wake of that Perception, the reflective notion pertaining to the aggregate—as ‘the Cloth, the Cloth’—with appropriate distinction; and this notion (of the ‘Cloth’) is purely illusory, without a real object. Thus the Cognition cited is not of the nature of Perception at all.

Nor is it Inference; as its object is one that has been already apprehended by a previous Perception, and also because it is not a Cognition brought about by means of an Inferential Indicative.

Thus in the case cited there is no Colour that has been suppressed.—(568)