1153 Verse 1665

Original

अन्यवस्तुनि विज्ञाने वृत्ते सर्वस्य नास्तिता ।
अदृश्यस्यापि गम्येत द्वितीयाभावसंश्रये ॥ १६६५ ॥

anyavastuni vijñāne vṛtte sarvasya nāstitā |
adṛśyasyāpi gamyeta dvitīyābhāvasaṃśraye || 1665 ||

If the second kind of ‘negation’ were admitted, then, when the ‘cognition of some other thing’ would come about, there would be ‘negation’ of everything else,—even that which is not perceptible.—(1665)

Kamalaśīla

The following Text points out the defect in the second definition of Negation (put forward under Text 1649);—[see verse 1665 above]

‘Even that, etc. etc.’—i.e. things removed in time, place and nature.

‘Second kind of Negation’—i.e. that in the form of ‘the cognition of something else’.—(1665)