0977 Verse 1371

Original

तत्रैकलक्षणो हेतुर्दृष्टान्तद्वयवर्जितः ।
कथिञ्चिदुपलभ्यत्वाद्भावाभावौ सदात्मकौ ॥ १३७१ ॥

tatraikalakṣaṇo heturdṛṣṭāntadvayavarjitaḥ |
kathiñcidupalabhyatvādbhāvābhāvau sadātmakau || 1371 ||

“An example of the one-featured probans without corroborative instances, we have in the reasoning—‘positive and negative entities are essentially existent—because they are capable of being apprehended somehow’.”—(1371)

Kamalaśīla

In the following Texts, it is shown, by a number of examples, that it is only the ‘one-featured’ Probans that has the requisite capacity (of leading to a valid conclusion):—[see verse 1371 above]

The Reasoning is in the form ‘Positive and Negative entities are somehow existent, because they are apprehensible somehow’,—In this case there are no external corroborative Instances, either of similarity or dissimilarity, either in the form of a statement or in the form of actual things; because all things have been included under the Subject (Minor Term) ‘Positive and Negative entities’; and there is nothing apart from these. As regards the character of ‘being present in the Minor Term’, this is ‘otherwise impossible’, and is nothing apart from this latter; hence the Probans here is ‘one-featured

‘Somehow’,—under some such term as ‘Cognisable’ or its synonyms.

‘Are essentially existent’,—‘somehow’ has to be construed with this also.—Hence the full Reasoning is—‘Because they are somehow apprehensible, therefore they are somehow existent’.—(1371)