1778 Verse 2815

Original

को हि मूलहरं पक्षं न्यायवाद्यध्यवस्यति ।
येन तत्सिध्द्युपायोऽपि स्वोक्त्यैवास्य विनश्यति ॥ २८१५ ॥

ko hi mūlaharaṃ pakṣaṃ nyāyavādyadhyavasyati |
yena tatsidhdyupāyo’pi svoktyaivāsya vinaśyati || 2815 ||

“How can any reasonable protagonist accept a view that strikes at the very root of the matter—when his expression of this view itself destroys the very means of establishing it?”—(2815)

Kamalaśīla

The following might be urged—‘Let the validity be destroyed; what is the harm?’

The Mīmāṃsaka’s answer to this is as follows;—[see verse 2815 above]

‘Root of the matter’—i.e. Validity.—This is ‘struck at the root’—done away with—by the idea of ‘dependence on something else’;—because it is contrary to a character more extensive than that. Because ‘validity’ is ‘pervaded by’—less extensive than—‘independence’; how then could this ‘validity’ obtain a footing, if there were the said ‘dependence’, which is contrary to ‘Independence’ which pervades ‘validity’ itself?

‘When, etc. etc.’—points out the Invariable Concomitance between ‘Validity’ and ‘Independence’.

‘Yena’—Because.—(2815)

Question:—In what way does it destroy the means of establishing it?

Answer:—[see verse 2816 next]