0443 Verse 573

Original

संज्ञापकप्रमाणस्य विषये तत्त्वमिष्यते ।
षण्णामस्तित्वमिति चेत्षड्भ्योऽन्यस्ते प्रसज्यते ॥ ५७३ ॥

saṃjñāpakapramāṇasya viṣaye tattvamiṣyate |
ṣaṇṇāmastitvamiti cetṣaḍbhyo’nyaste prasajyate || 573 ||

If it be said that—“the existence of the six categories is held to be the property subsisting in what is an object made known by a means of right cognition”,—then, in that case, this would have to be distinct from the six that you postulate.—(573)

Kamalaśīla

In the following text, the Author anticipates the answer of the Opponent:—[see verse 573 above]

“What is meant is that the ‘existence’ of the Six Categories is a distinct property consisting in their being cognisable of such Means of Right Cognition as apprehend existing things:—so that there is no discrepancy in our Premiss”;—this is the sense of the Opponent’s answer.

The answer to this is—‘In that case, etc., etc.’;—‘Distinct’—i.e. a distinct Category; i.e. it becomes a seventh ‘Category’; and this would militate against the doctrine of the ‘Six Categories’.—(573)