1161 Verse 1679

Original

नीरूपस्य हि विज्ञानरूपहानौ प्रमाणता ।
न युज्यते प्रमेयस्य सा हि संवित्तिलक्षणा ॥ १६७९ ॥।

nīrūpasya hi vijñānarūpahānau pramāṇatā |
na yujyate prameyasya sā hi saṃvittilakṣaṇā || 1679 |||

The object that is featureless being devoid of the form of cognition, cannot be a means or form of cognition; as this is always of the nature of cognition.—(1679)

Kamalaśīla

‘This’—i.e. Means or Form of Cognition.

That which, is not of the nature of the cognition of things cannot be a ‘Means or Form of Cognition’,—e.g. the Jar and such things;—and Negation is devoid of the nature of the cognition of things;—hence there is nonapprehension of the wider character (which must mean the absence of the less wide character).—(1679)