आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

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द्रव्यादिषु निषिद्धेषु जातयोऽपि निराकृताः ।
पदार्थत्रयवृत्ता हि सर्वास्ताः परिकल्पिताः ॥ ७०८ ॥

dravyādiṣu niṣiddheṣu jātayo’pi nirākṛtāḥ |
padārthatrayavṛttā hi sarvāstāḥ parikalpitāḥ || 708 ||

‘Substance’ and other categories having been rejected, the ‘universals’ also have become rejected; as they have all been assumed to subsist in the three categories.—(708)

Kamalaśīla

With the following Text the Author begins the criticism of the Category of ‘The Universal’:—[see verse 708 above]

‘The Universals’,—i.e. the Genuses. These are held to be subsistent in the three Categories,—Substance, Quality and Action; and hence become discarded by the rejection of these Categories themselves; as without the Substratum, the Subsistent cannot exist anywhere; for if it did, it would not be subsistent at all.

The mention of the ‘Universal’ is only by way of an illustration; the Ultimate Individualities also are held to be subsistent, as subsisting in Ultimate Substances; hence these also become discarded by the rejection of their substratum.—(708)