आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Original

न चाप्यश्वादिशब्देभ्यो जायतेऽपोहबोधनम् ।
विशेष्यबुद्धिरिष्टेह न चाज्ञातविशेषणा ॥ ९४८ ॥

na cāpyaśvādiśabdebhyo jāyate’pohabodhanam |
viśeṣyabuddhiriṣṭeha na cājñātaviśeṣaṇā || 948 ||

“The terms ‘horse’ and the rest do not bring about the cognition of the Apoha; and the idea of the qualified that is held in this connection cannot be one in which the qualification is not cognised.”—[Ślokavārtika-Apoha 88]—(948)

Kamalaśīla

As a matter of fact, the cognition of the Horse and other non-cows does not apprehend the Apoha; it apprehends a positive entity; and thus there being no possibility of the Apoha being cognised, it cannot colour the Horse, etc. with its own cognition.

It might be urged that—“Even without being itself cognised, the Apoha could be the qualification”.

The answer to this is that ‘the Idea of the qualified, etc. etc.’;—there can never be a cognition of the qualified thing of which the qualification is not apprehended.—(948)