आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Original

अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यामेकादिवचसस्ततः ।
नियमोऽयं विवक्षातो नार्थात्तद्व्यभिचारतः ॥ ११४१ ॥

anvayavyatirekābhyāmekādivacasastataḥ |
niyamo’yaṃ vivakṣāto nārthāttadvyabhicārataḥ || 1141 ||

Thus the use of words in the singular and other numbers should be regarded through concomitance and non-concomitance, as depending entirely upon the speaker’s whim,—not upon the real state of things; as it is not always in accordance with this latter.—(1141)

Kamalaśīla

In the following Text, the Author sums up his Reasoning:—[see verse 1141 above]

‘As it is, etc. etc.’; because the real state of things is not exactly as expressed by the words.—(1141)