आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

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पुंवाक्यादपि विज्ञानं यत्प्रवृत्तमतीन्द्रिये ।
तस्याप्यध्यक्षतुल्यत्वं कस्मादभिमतं न वः ॥ २४४० ॥

puṃvākyādapi vijñānaṃ yatpravṛttamatīndriye |
tasyāpyadhyakṣatulyatvaṃ kasmādabhimataṃ na vaḥ || 2440 ||

When a cognition proceeds from the words of a human-being, in regard to something beyond the senses,—why do you not regard it to be as reliable as that derived from sense-perception?—(2440)

Kamalaśīla

If even when not inseparably related, the Word were a Means of Right Cognition, then there would be incongruities,—This is what is shown in the following:—[see verse 2440 above]

Why should not reliability belong to the words that ‘Heaven does not result from the performance of the Agnihotra’? Because in both cases—[in the case of these words and in that of the Vedic declaration that Heaven does result from the performance of the Agnihotra]—the character of not being denied is equally present.—(2440)

The same non-difference between the two cases is further explained:—[see verses 2441-2442 next]