0987 Verse 1391

Original

भावस्य हि तदात्मत्वं सर्वैरेव विनिश्चितम् ।
कथंचित्तस्य साध्यत्वं किमित्थमभिधीयते ॥ १३९१ ॥

bhāvasya hi tadātmatvaṃ sarvaireva viniścitam |
kathaṃcittasya sādhyatvaṃ kimitthamabhidhīyate || 1391 ||

That the positive entity is essentially existent is known to all persons; then how is it said that it is known ‘somehow’?—(1391)

Kamalaśīla

It might be urged that—“here also what forms the object of the Probans is what is open to doubt”.—The answer to that is as follows:—[see verse 1391 above]

When all persons somehow know it for certain that the Positive Entity is existent, why do you state your Proposition in the form ‘The Positive Entity is somehow existent’?—

‘Tadātmatvam’—being essentially existent.

The mention of the ‘Positive Entity’ is only by way of illustration; the Negative Entity is also meant.

‘Somehow’—i.e. in the form of ‘being cognisable’,—it is known for certain that all this is existent; hence the Probans is absolutely futile.—(1391)