आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

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अन्याकारमपि ज्ञानं कथमन्यस्य वेदकम् ।
सर्वः स्यात्सर्वसंवेद्यो न हेतुश्च नियामकः ॥ २०४० ॥

anyākāramapi jñānaṃ kathamanyasya vedakam |
sarvaḥ syātsarvasaṃvedyo na hetuśca niyāmakaḥ || 2040 ||

How can the cognition envisaging (having the form of) one object apprehend another object? If it did so, everything would be apprehended by every cognition; and there would be no basis for restriction.—(2040)

Kamalaśīla

The following Text proceeds to deal with the third alternative view (suggested in Text 1999)—that “Cognition envisages something else”:—[see verse 2040 above]

It might be urged that—“when a Cognition is produced by a certain Object, it apprehends only that Object, and thus every Object could not be apprehended by every Cognition

The answer to this is—‘There would be no basis for restriction’; that is, even the Eye, etc. would become ‘apprehended’.—(2040)

The following Text presents Bhadanta-Śubhagupta’s answer to the above—[see verse 2041 next]