0485 Verse 635

Original

क्व कस्य समवायश्च संबन्धिन्यपहस्तिते ।
विशेषप्रतिषेधोऽयं तथापि पुनरुच्यते ॥ ६३५ ॥

kva kasya samavāyaśca saṃbandhinyapahastite |
viśeṣapratiṣedho’yaṃ tathāpi punarucyate || 635 ||

The ‘relative’ (wherein the relation could subsist) having been discarded, whose ‘subsistence’ would it be? and where? still a detailed denial of each (category) is going to be set forth.—(635)

Kamalaśīla

‘Subsistence’ is described as ‘inherence of the five categories’; so that when the Substance and other (four) categories—wherein alone the said Relation could subsist,—have been rejected, whose ‘subsistence’ would it be? and where? That is, of nothing and nowhere; for the simple reason that all that could be the substratum and the subsistent have been rejected.—(635) The detailed denial of Qualities is now set forth.

In this connection, the Sūtra (Vaiśeṣika) is as follows:—“The following are. the Qualities:—Colour, Taste, Odour, Touch, Number, Dimension, Separateness, Conjunction, Disjunction, Priority, Posteriority, Cognitions, Pleasure, Pain, Desire, Hatred and Exertion”; the particle ‘ca’, ‘and’, including Gravity, Fluidity, Viscidity, Momentum, Merit and Demerit and Sound.—Colour is what is apprehended by the Eye, and subsists in Earth, Water, and Fire;—Taste is apprehended by the Gestatory Organ, and subsists in Earth and Water;—Odour is apprehended by the Olfactory Organ and subsists in Earth;—Touch is apprehended by the Tactile Organ, and subsists in Earth, Water, Fire and Air”,

From among these Qualities, the Text sets forth the denial of the first four—Colour and the rest:—[see verse 636 next]