0667 Verse 920

Original

तस्यां चाश्वादिबुद्धीनामात्मांशग्रहणं भवेत् ।
तत्रान्यापोहवाच्यत्वं मुधैवाभ्युपगम्यते ॥ ९२० ॥

tasyāṃ cāśvādibuddhīnāmātmāṃśagrahaṇaṃ bhavet |
tatrānyāpohavācyatvaṃ mudhaivābhyupagamyate || 920 ||

“In that ‘void’ there would be an apprehension of the character of the cognitions themselves of the horse and other things; and in that case it would be useless to posit the ‘Apoha (negation) of others’ as the import of words.”—[Ślokavārtika-Apoha 37]—(920)

Kamalaśīla

If the ‘Void’ is what is denoted, then it comes to this that in all Verbal Cognitions what is comprehended is only the factor of ‘Cognition’ itself; as ex hypothesis there can be no apprehension of the form of any thing external.—“Even so, what is the harm?”—In that case, it would be futile to assert that the Apoha is denoted by words; as what would become the Import of Words would be the form of the Cognition which would be a positive entity independent of all tinge of anything external. What is meant is that in this way there would be a contradiction of your own doctrine—by this Proposition of yours.—(920)

The same idea is further explained:—[see verse 921 next]