1387 Verse 2141

Original

देशकालप्रयोक्तॄणां भेदेऽपि च न भेदवान् ।
गादिवर्णो यतस्तत्र प्रत्यभिज्ञा परिस्फुटा ॥ २१४१ ॥

deśakālaprayoktṝṇāṃ bhede’pi ca na bhedavān |
gādivarṇo yatastatra pratyabhijñā parisphuṭā || 2141 ||

“Even though there are differences of place, time and user,—there is no diversity in the letter ‘ga’ and the rest; as the ‘recognition’ in their case is clear and distinct.”—(2141)

Kamalaśīla

It has been declared (under Text 2131, above) as follows:—‘If the oneness of the Jar, that is urged as an undesirable contingency, is in reference to the Universal aspect, then the argument is superfluous.—If however, one were to urge the contingency of the Individual Jars being one, on the strength of the above arguments, then it can be pointed out that such an idea would be contrary to all Forms of Bight Cognition’.—What has been said there is equally applicable to the present case: For instance—If the one-ness urged is in regard to the ‘Universal’ aspect of the ‘ga’ and other letters (composing the word ‘Gavḥ then it is superfluous, and so forth, all the rest of it may be repeated. Because in view of the diversity of Place, Time and Speaker, the Individual Letters—Ga and the rest are many; and it is in these that the ‘Universal’ Cow subsists; and in the same way, the Universal aspect of the letter ‘ga’ is held to subsist in the individual letter; so the two cases are exactly similar in all aspects [and on the same grounds that the individual jars cannot all be the same the individual word ‘Cow’, or the individual letter ‘ga’, cannot all be the same].

Anticipating this argument, the Mīmāṃsaka offers the following answer:—[see verse 2141 above]

From Perception, in the shape of Recognition, it is proved that the Individuals (letters) are one;—Inference can have no validity, as against Perception; Perception being the highest of all Means of Right Cognition. Such is the sense of the text.—(2141)