1592 Verse 2479

Original

गकारव्यतिरिक्तं च सामान्यं गत्वमिष्यते ।
वास्तवं न प्रयोगेऽतो दुर्वारा सिद्धसाध्यता ॥ २४७९ ॥

gakāravyatiriktaṃ ca sāmānyaṃ gatvamiṣyate |
vāstavaṃ na prayoge’to durvārā siddhasādhyatā || 2479 ||

The universal ‘ga’ is not held to be something real, distinct from the letter ‘ga’; hence the charge of ‘futility’ is irresistible, as against the Mīmāṃsaka’s reasoning.—(2479)

Kamalaśīla

It has been argued by the Mīmāṃsaka, under Text 2143, that—“The Individual Letter ‘Ga’ has no existence apart from the substratum of the-Universal ‘Ga’, etc. etc.”.

This argument is open to the charge of being ‘superfluous’:—this is. what is shown in the following:—[see verse 2479 above]

‘Iṣyate’, ‘is held’; this is to be construed with the ‘na’ following, in the second line.—(2479)