1038 Verse 1488

Original

उच्यते न द्वयादन्यत्प्रमाणमुपपद्यते ।
प्रमाणलक्षणायोगाद्योगे चान्तर्गमादिह ॥ १४८८ ॥

ucyate na dvayādanyatpramāṇamupapadyate |
pramāṇalakṣaṇāyogādyoge cāntargamādiha || 1488 ||

The reply to this is as follows:—in fact, there cannot be any form of cognition except the two (already described); because all the others that have been postulated either do not possess the character of the ‘form of right cognition’, or are included in these two.—(1488)

Kamalaśīla

‘Included in these’,—i.e. in the two Forms of Cognition already described.

What is meant is as follows:—The characteristic of Valid Knowledge is that it should be in conformity with the real state of things; and this is not present at all in any of the others that have been postulated; every case where this characteristic is present, is included in the said two, and hence the others have not been described separately.—(1488)