0848 Verse 1175

Original

तादृग्ज्ञेयत्वमस्तेषां क्षणिकत्वादिसाधनात् ।
ज्ञेयोऽभावोऽपि संवृत्त्या स्थापनादमुनाऽऽत्मना ॥ ११७५ ॥

tādṛgjñeyatvamasteṣāṃ kṣaṇikatvādisādhanāt |
jñeyo’bhāvo’pi saṃvṛttyā sthāpanādamunā’’tmanā || 1175 ||

That they are cognisable in the forms asserted follows from the fact that it has been proved that all things are momentary and so forth. Negation also is cognisable as illusory, as it has been proved that it is in that form.—(1175)

Kamalaśīla

‘In the forms asserted’—i.e. as ‘momentary’ and the rest; as all this has been established by proofs.

Question:—“How is Negation cognisable?”

Answer:—‘Negation also is cognisable, etc. etc.’;—‘in that form’,—i.e. in the form of Negation.

As a matter of fact, even non-entities are also somehow proved to exist, hence they are regarded as cognisable; if they were not so, then there could be no usage regarding them.—(1175)