1135 Verse 1637

Original

प्रत्यक्षद्रव्यवर्त्तिन्यो दृश्यन्ते ननु याः क्रियाः ।
तासां वर्णवदेवेष्टं नित्यत्वं प्रत्यभिज्ञया ॥ १६३७ ॥

pratyakṣadravyavarttinyo dṛśyante nanu yāḥ kriyāḥ |
tāsāṃ varṇavadeveṣṭaṃ nityatvaṃ pratyabhijñayā || 1637 ||

“Those actions that are seen subsisting in perceptible things are all held to be eternal, like the letters in the word,—on the ground of recognition.”—(1637)

Kamalaśīla

The Opponent urges the objection that “the instance of ‘shaking’ that has been cited is devoid of the Probandum”:—[see verse 1637 above]

“We hold the letters to be eternal, on the ground of Recognition; in the same way, the gestures made by the Hand also are eternal; hence the ‘Shaking’ (of the Hand) that has been cited is ‘devoid of the Probandum’,—[i.e. it is not non-eternal]; hence that does not falsify our Premiss—(1637)