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बाध्यतां काममेतत्तु न्याय्यमित्युपगम्यते ।
क्षणिकं सर्वयुक्तिभ्यः सर्वभावविनिश्चितम् ॥ १८८७ ॥
यदि न्यायानुरागाद्वः स्वपक्षेऽप्यनपेक्षता ।
भूतान्येव न सन्तीति न्यायोऽयं पर इष्यताम् ॥ १८८८ ॥

bādhyatāṃ kāmametattu nyāyyamityupagamyate |
kṣaṇikaṃ sarvayuktibhyaḥ sarvabhāvaviniścitam || 1887 ||
yadi nyāyānurāgādvaḥ svapakṣe’pyanapekṣatā |
bhūtānyeva na santīti nyāyo’yaṃ para iṣyatām || 1888 ||

[The materialist might say]—“Let the doctrine be upset; we accept the view that all things are decidedly momentary, because it is a reasonable view supported by all kinds of reason”.—If your love for reason is so great that you have no regard for your own doctrine,—then you should accept also the more reasonable view that ‘primary elemental substances do not exist at all’.—(1887-1888)

Kamalaśīla

If you accept the momentary character of things, because it is in accordance with Reason, then you should accept the doctrine that ‘Ideas alone exist’, which is still more reasonable; because reasonableness, which is your criterion for acceptance, is present in this case also.—(1887-1888)

Question:—“How so?”

Answer:—[see verse 1889 next]