0684 Verse 938

Original

शाबलेयाच्च भिन्नत्वं बाहुलेयाश्वयोः समम् ।
सामान्यं नान्यदिष्टं चेत्क्वागोऽपोहः प्रवर्त्तताम् ॥ ९३८ ॥

śābaleyācca bhinnatvaṃ bāhuleyāśvayoḥ samam |
sāmānyaṃ nānyadiṣṭaṃ cetkvāgo’pohaḥ pravarttatām || 938 ||

“Difference from the spotted cow is the same in the black cow and in the horse. so that if no other ‘commonalty’ is admitted, whereto would, the Apoha of the non-cow apply?”—[Ślokavārtika-Apoha 77]—(938)

Kamalaśīla

‘Whereto, etc. etc.’—Just as the ‘Apoha of the non-Cow’ is not applied to the Horse, on the basis of its difference from the Spotted Cow,—so, inasmuch as the Black Cow also is different from the Spotted Cow, the said ‘Apoha of the non-Cow’ should not apply to the Black Cow also. So also to the spotted and other Cows; ‘difference’ being equally present in all cases. [And the Buddhist does not accept any such commonalty as that subsisting among all Cows, but not in any other animal.]—(938)