1116 Verse 1615

Original

प्रत्यक्षत्वे स्थिते चास्यामनुमेयत्ववारणम् ।
क्षतये नैव येनास्मिन्विषये नानुमेष्यते ॥ १६१५ ॥

pratyakṣatve sthite cāsyāmanumeyatvavāraṇam |
kṣataye naiva yenāsminviṣaye nānumeṣyate || 1615 ||

The perceptibility (or potency) being thus established,—all that has been said (by the other party) regarding its not being cognisable by inference, does not affect us. because in this case we do not regard the cognition to be of the nature of inference.—(1615)

Kamalaśīla

Then again, it has been declared (by Kumārila, see above under Text 1589) that “Potencies of all Things become cognised through Presumption” and so forth; where it has been shown that Potencies cannot be inferred. That does not affect our position at all.—“Why?”—Because in this case—of Potency being perceptiblewe do not regard the cognition to be of the nature of Inference; for the simple reason that Inference consists of the cognition of only such things as are not cognisable by Perception.

This shows that the arguments adduced are superfluous.—(1615)