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यदि त्वालोच्य संमील्य नेत्रे कश्चिद्विकल्पयेत् ।
न स्यात्प्रत्यक्षता तस्य सम्बन्धाननुसारतः ॥ १२९२ ॥

yadi tvālocya saṃmīlya netre kaścidvikalpayet |
na syātpratyakṣatā tasya sambandhānanusārataḥ || 1292 ||

“If after having pre-cognised the thing, the man closes his eyes and then imposes conceptual contents,—this latter would not be ‘sense-perception’;—because it is not in accordance with the connection (op the sense-organs).”—(Ślokavārtika—sense-perception, 128).—(1292)

Kamalaśīla

‘Having pre-cognised’—i.e. having apprehended by Pre-cognition.

‘Eyes’—to be construed with ‘closes’,

‘It is not in accordance, etc. etc,’:—i.e. it has not been brought about by the contact of the sense-organ concerned.—This has been thus asserted by Kvmārila—“Thus then the process of conceptual content being similar in the two cases, that cognition which follows upon the contact of the sense-organ has the.character of sense-perception;—this is well-known, among people, even without any definition”. (Ślokavārtika—Sense-perception, 254).—(1292)

To all these arguments of Kumārila, the answer is as follows:—[see verses 1293-1294 next]