1555 Verse 2419

Original

उपलभ्यस्वभावानां तद्व्यापारे समुद्भवः ।
तेषां प्रागपि सद्भावे उपलब्धिः प्रसज्यते ॥ २४१९ ॥

upalabhyasvabhāvānāṃ tadvyāpāre samudbhavaḥ |
teṣāṃ prāgapi sadbhāve upalabdhiḥ prasajyate || 2419 ||

The Vedas being perceptible in their character, there is appearance of them when there is operation of the ‘manifester’: if they existed even before that operation, then they should be perceptible at that time also.—(2419)

Kamalaśīla

Even granting that there can be a ‘Manifester’ of the eternal thing;—such a ‘Manifester’ does not differ from the ‘maker’,—This is what is shown in the following:—[see verse 2419 above]

Nothing can be regarded as ‘Manifester’ unless it does something; otherwise there would be incongruities’; and if it does something, then it becomes admitt ed that it is the producer; because the production of a particular thing consists only in the coming about of another character.

‘Being perceptible in their character’—This qualifies the Vedas.

It might be argued that—“the Vedas were perceptible in their character even before; then how can they be said to appear through the operation of the Manifester”?

The answer to this is—‘If they existed even before, etc. etc.’—‘Teṣām stands for the Vedas that are perceptible in their character.—(2419)

The same idea is further supported:—[see verse 2420 next]