ईश्वरप्रत्यभिज्ञाकारिका
Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā
- 1 ata eva yad apy uktaṃ kriyā naikasya sakramā … For this very reason, whatever was said (by the opponent) — that 'action, being…
- 2 sakramatvaṃ ca laukikyāḥ kriyāyāḥ kālaśaktitaḥ ghaṭate na tu … Sequentiality holds of worldly action through the power of time, but not of the eternal…
- 3 kālaḥ sūryādisaṃcāras tattatpuṣpādijanma vā śītoṣṇe vātha tallakṣyaḥ krama … Time is the course of the sun and the like, or the blossoming of this and that flower and…
- 4 kramo bhedāśrayo bhedo 'py ābhāsasadasattvataḥ ābhāsasadasattve tu citrābhāsakṛtaḥ … Sequence rests upon difference, and difference, moreover, arises from the presence and…
- 5 mūrtivaicitryato deśakramam ābhāsayaty asau kriyāvaicitryanirbhāsāt kālakramam apīśvaraḥ From the variety of forms he manifests spatial sequence;
- 6 sarvatrābhāsabhedo 'pi bhavet kālakramākaraḥ vicchinnabhāsaḥ śūnyāder mātur bhātasya … Difference of appearance everywhere could be the source of temporal sequence — (it…
- 7 deśakramo 'pi bhāveṣu bhāti mātur mitātmanaḥ svātmeva svātmanā … Spatial sequence too appears among the entities for the cognizing subject whose nature is…
- 8 kiṃ tu nirmāṇaśaktiḥ sāpy evaṃ viduṣa īśituḥ tathā … But that power of creation, too, belongs to the all-knowing sovereign Lord in such wise…