0646 Verse 890

Original

सोऽयमित्यभिसम्बन्धाद्रूपमेकीकृतं यदा ।
शब्दस्यार्थेन तं शब्दमभिजल्पं प्रचक्षते ॥ ८९० ॥

so’yamityabhisambandhādrūpamekīkṛtaṃ yadā |
śabdasyārthena taṃ śabdamabhijalpaṃ pracakṣate || 890 ||

When the form of the word becomes identified with the object through the conception that ‘this is that’,—that word they regard as in the ‘state of coalescence’.—(890)

Kamalaśīla

The following Text explains what is meant by this ‘Coalescence’:—[see verse 890 above]

When the character of the object is imposed upon the Word—by such expressions as ‘Word is the Object’; on the basis of this imposition, when the form of the Word becomes identified with the Object,—the Word in the state of this unification with the object is said to be ‘in the state of coalescence’.—(890)