ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका
Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā
- 1 yā caiṣā pratibhā tattatpadārthakramarūṣitā akramānantacidrūpaḥ pramātā sa maheśvaraḥ And this very luminous insight, tinged by the sequence of this and that object-content —…
- 2 tattadvibhinnasaṃvittimukhair ekapramātari pratitiṣṭhatsu bhāveṣu jñāteyam upapadyate When the entities come to rest in the one cognizing subject through the apertures of…
- 3 deśakālakramajuṣām arthānāṃ svasamāpinām sakṛdābhāsasādhyo 'sāv anyathā kaḥ samanvayaḥ This (correlation) of objects subject to the sequence of space and time, each…
- 4 pratyakṣānupalambhānāṃ tattadbhinnāṃśapātinām kāryakāraṇatāsiddhihetutaikapramātṛjā The capacity of perceptions and non-perceptions, which fall upon these various distinct…
- 5 smṛtau yaiva svasaṃvittiḥ pramāṇaṃ svātmasaṃbhave pūrvānubhavasadbhāve sādhanaṃ saiva … In memory, the very self-awareness that is the means of valid knowledge for its own…
- 6 bādhyabādhakabhāvo 'pi svātmaniṣṭhāvirodhinām jñānānām udiyād ekapramātṛpariniṣṭhiteḥ The relation of sublated and sublating, too, among cognitions which, resting each in…
- 7 viviktabhūtalajñānaṃ ghaṭābhāvamatir yathā tathā cecchuktikājñānaṃ rūpyajñānāpramātvavit (Objection:) Just as the cognition of the bare ground is the cognition of the absence of…
- 8 naivaṃ śuddhasthalajñānāt siddhyet tasyāghaṭātmanā na tūpalabdhiyogyasyāpy atrābhāvo ghaṭātmanaḥ (Reply:) It is not so.
- 9 viviktaṃ bhūtalaṃ śaśvad bhāvānāṃ svātmaniṣṭhiteḥ tat kathaṃ jātu … The ground is forever distinct, since entities rest each in their own self;
- 10 kim tv ālokacayo 'ndhasya sparśo voṣṇādiko mṛduḥ tatrāsti … Rather, it is the mass of light (for a sighted man), or the touch — warm and the like, or…
- 11 piśācaḥ syād anāloko 'py ālokābhyantare yathā adṛśyo bhūtalasyānta … Just as a goblin, invisible even in the very midst of light, might still exist, so an…
- 12 evaṃ rūpyavidābhāvarūpā śuktimatir bhavet na tv ādyarajatajñapteḥ syād … In the same way, the cognition of the mother-of-pearl would have the form of the absence…
- 13 dharmyasiddher api bhaved bādhā naivānumānataḥ svasaṃvedanasiddhā tu yuktā … Moreover, since the property-bearer is not (independently) established, a sublation could…
- 14 ittham atyarthabhinnārthā-vabhāsakhacite vibhau samalo vimalo vāpi vyavahāro 'nubhūyate Thus, in the all-pervading (Lord), inlaid with the appearances of utterly distinct…