0761 Verse 1048-1049

Original

स्वबीजानेकविश्लिष्टवस्तुसङ्केतशक्तितः ।
विकल्पास्तु विभिद्यन्ते तद्रूपाध्यवसायिनः ॥ १०४८ ॥
नैकात्मतां प्रपद्यन्ते च भिद्यन्ते च खण्डशः ।
स्वलक्षणात्मका अर्था विकल्पः प्लवते त्वसौ ॥ १०४९ ॥

svabījānekaviśliṣṭavastusaṅketaśaktitaḥ |
vikalpāstu vibhidyante tadrūpādhyavasāyinaḥ || 1048 ||
naikātmatāṃ prapadyante ca bhidyante ca khaṇḍaśaḥ |
svalakṣaṇātmakā arthā vikalpaḥ plavate tvasau || 1049 ||

What differ among themselves are the conceptual contents apprehending the said exclusions;—and those differences are due to the influence of their root, the thing as differentiated from several things, and convention. Things, consisting of ‘specific individualities’ do not become either unified or diversified in parts; it is only the conceptual content that varies.—(1048-1049)

Kamalaśīla

The following Texts proceed to show that in reality it is the assumptions (assumed conceptions) only that differ among themselves:—[see verses 1048-1049 above]

‘Their Root’,—in the shape of Wind and other Humours, and the Tendency to conceptual thought;—the thing as differentiated from severalngs,—and the Convention;—it is due to the ‘influence’—force—of these that the Conceptual Contents, apprehending the thing as excluded from several unlike things, become diversified; it is not the things that are diversified. For instance, the Dhava and other trees do not become unified in the form of the Universal ‘Tree’; nor do they become diversified, in parts, in the form of the momentary individual trees; all that varies is the conceptual content. This has been thus declared—‘Things by themselves do not become either aggregated or diversified, in reality; that their form is one or many is due to the fluctuations of the Cognition’,—(1048-1049)