1066 Verse 1533

Original

सादृश्यस्य च वस्तुत्वं न शक्यमपबाधितुम् ।
भूयोऽवयवसामान्ययोगो जात्यन्तरस्य तत् ॥ १५३३ ॥

sādṛśyasya ca vastutvaṃ na śakyamapabādhitum |
bhūyo’vayavasāmānyayogo jātyantarasya tat || 1533 ||

“The fact of similarity being an entity cannot be denied; because it actually exists in the form of the presence in a thing of one kind of several parts similar to those in that of another kind.”—[Ślokavārtika-upamāna, 18.]—(1533)

Kamalaśīla

The following might be urged—“If similarity were an entity by itself, then it could be perceived; as a matter of fact, however, it is not admitted that it is an entity by itself”.

Answer:—[see verse 1533 above]

As a matter of fact, Similarity is a relationship in the shape of the Inherence, in a particular individual, of many parts—in the shape of the Homs and others, as existing in the Cow,—in the particular Individual, the Gavaya;—and a Relationship is not something entirely different from the Relatives; for, if it were, then there might be the possibility of there being no cognition of the Relationship at all.

The qualifying term is ‘in a thing of another kind’, because the presence of all common features in things of the same kind is not regarded as similarity.—(1533)