1900 Verse 3035

Original

स्वतःप्रामाण्यवादे च स्वतो निश्चयजातितः ।
विनाशसम्भवायोगात्किमर्थं विनिवारणम् ॥ ३०३५ ॥

svataḥprāmāṇyavāde ca svato niścayajātitaḥ |
vināśasambhavāyogātkimarthaṃ vinivāraṇam || 3035 ||

Under the theory of ‘self-validity’, the certainty comes about from the birth of the cognition itself; hence there can be no ‘mutilation’; what then is there to be prevented?—(3035)

Kamalaśīla

It has been asserted by the other party, under Text 2887, that—“Teachers and Fellow-students help to prevent mutilations in the Eternal Word, etc. etc.”.

The answer to this is as follows:—[see verse 3035 above]

‘Niścayajātitaḥ’—on account of certainty having come about.—Otherwise, if the certainty did not come about from the Cognition itself,—then the doctrine of ‘self-validity’ would be done away with.—(3035)