1697 Verse 2682

Original

प्राक्च जात्या घटादीनां व्यवहारोपलक्षणम् ।
निषिद्धं तदसत्त्वेन व्यक्त्या च तदयोगतः ॥ २६८२ ॥

prākca jātyā ghaṭādīnāṃ vyavahāropalakṣaṇam |
niṣiddhaṃ tadasattvena vyaktyā ca tadayogataḥ || 2682 ||

The idea that ‘in the case of the jar, etc. their use is characterised and indicated by the “universal”’ has already been discarded; because the universal does not exist, and because it can have no connection with the individual thing.—(2682)

Kamalaśīla

It has been argued by the Mīmāṃsaka, under Text 2292, that—“Just as in the ease of the Jar and such things, etc. etc.”.

The answer to that is as follows:—[see verse 2682 above]

‘Already’—under the chapter dealing with the ‘Universal ‘Because it does not exist’—i.e. because the Universal has no existence.

Even if it exists, it can have no connection with the Individual thing, in the shape of the Jar; because it cannot be benefited by this latter. Hence its use cannot be regarded as characterised or indicated by the ‘Universal’.—(2682)

The following text points out that, as a consequence of what has gone above, it follows that all that has been alleged by the other party on the basis of the ‘Universal’ is entirely irrelevant.—[see verse 2683 next]