0762 Verse 1050

Original

एकधर्मान्वयासत्त्वेऽप्यपोह्यापोहगोचराः ।
वैलक्षण्येन गम्यन्ते भिन्नप्रत्यवमर्शतः ॥ १०५० ॥

ekadharmānvayāsattve’pyapohyāpohagocarāḥ |
vailakṣaṇyena gamyante bhinnapratyavamarśataḥ || 1050 |

Even though there is no common property, yet what are excluded and what are contained in the exclusion are apprehended as different, by reason of their appearing as diverse in the subsequent determinate judgment.—(1050)

Kamalaśīla

It has been argued above (under Text 932) that—“No one can be able to conceive, in regard to the Cow, the unknown similarity in the object of Apoha, etc. etc.”

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 1050 above]

The compound ‘apohyāpohagocarāḥ’ is made up of the ‘apohya’ ‘what are excluded’—i.e. (in the case of the word ‘Cow’) the Horse and other animals,—and the ‘apohagocara’, ‘what are contained in the exclusion’,—i.e. the Variegated and other Cows; these are so spoken of as the ‘exclusion of the non-Cow’ pertains to them.

Thus, though there is no concomitance of any commonalty, yet, those that bring about the determinate judgment of non-different things are regarded as having their similarity well known,—while those that bring about the determinate judgment of diverse things,—are regarded as otherwise (i.e. as having their similarity unknown).—(1050)