1410 Verse 2172

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नित्यं कार्यानुमेया च शक्तिः किमनुयुज्यते ।
तद्भावभावितामात्रं प्रमाणं तत्र गम्यते ॥ २१७२ ॥

nityaṃ kāryānumeyā ca śaktiḥ kimanuyujyate |
tadbhāvabhāvitāmātraṃ pramāṇaṃ tatra gamyate || 2172 ||

“Why should any question or objection be raised against the capacity of things, which is always inferable from its effects? And the only proof for it lies in the fact that the particular effect appears only when the particular capacity is there”.—[Ślokavārtika—eternality of words, 44].—(2172)

Kamalaśīla

Question:—If the Capacity is beyond the reach of the Sense-organs,—how then can it be admitted?

Answer (from the Mīmāṃsaka):—[see verse 2172 above]

Whether it be the capacity to manifest, or the capacity to embellish—in all cases, whatever capacity is there can always be inferred from its effects; hence no question or objection can be raised against it.

Question:—What is that effect which leads to the inference of the Capacity?

Answer:—‘And the only proof, etc. etc.’—‘Tadhhāve’—when the Articulation is there,—then alone is ‘tadbhāvitā’—i.e. the appearance of the effect, in the shape of the cognition of the Sound; this is the only proof for the existence, in the Articulation, of the capacity to manifest the Word-Sound;—that is, from the effect, in the shape of the cognition of Sound, there is inference of the said capacity.

‘Only’—this is meant to preclude the idea of production.—(2172)