1169 Verse 1696

Original

कार्यकारणताभावप्रतिपत्तिर्न संयता ।
तदत्रास्यां न भेदोऽस्ति साध्यसाधनयोर्यतः ॥ १६९६ ॥

kāryakāraṇatābhāvapratipattirna saṃyatā |
tadatrāsyāṃ na bhedo’sti sādhyasādhanayoryataḥ || 1696 ||

There is no restriction regarding the cognition of cause and effect, and the cognition of non-existence; and in the cases cited there is no difference between the probans and the probandum.—(1696)

Kamalaśīla

The compound ‘Kāryakāraṇatā, etc,’ is to be expounded as the ‘prati-patti’, cognition, of ‘Kāryakāraṇatā’, the relation of Cause and Effect, and of ‘abhāva’, ‘non-existence’; the cognition of the relation of Cause and Effect is said to be by means of ‘Ratiocination’, and the cognition of ‘nonexistence by means of Non-apprehension’.

‘Asyām’—in the two cases cited—of ‘Ratiocination’ and ‘Non-apprehension’,—there is no difference between the Probans and the Probandum.—(1696)

How there is no difference is shown in the following—[see verse 1696 next]