Verse 352

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

कृतकाकृतकत्वेन द्वैराश्यं कैश्चिदिष्यते ।
क्षणिकाक्षणिकत्वेन भावानामपरैर्मतम् ॥ ३५२ ॥

kṛtakākṛtakatvena dvairāśyaṃ kaiścidiṣyate |
kṣaṇikākṣaṇikatvena bhāvānāmaparairmatam || 352 ||

Some people hold that there are two classes of things—cheated and uncreated; others have held that the two classes op things are momentary and non-momentary.—(352)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

In this connection, the followers of Nyāya and others do not regard anything as ‘momentary’, and they hold that there are two classes of things in the shape of ‘Created’ and ‘Uncreated among things some are ‘created’,—as the jar and the rest, while some are ‘uncreated’—as the Atom, Ākāśa, etc.

Others however,—like Vātsīputrīyas—hold that there is a further classification of things under the two heads of ‘momentary’ and ‘non-momentary’; that is, according to these people, suchngs as Cognition, Sound, Light-rays, are ‘momentary’, while such things as Earth and Ākāśa are ‘non-momentary—(352)

Such being the diversity among the various views, the Author first of all proceeds to set forth reasonings in support of the ‘Perpetual Flux’ of those things that are held to be ‘Created which thus form the ‘Subject’ of the Reasoning set forth:—[see verse 353 next]