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EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF SELF-SUFFICIENT VALIDITY'. 1275
TEXT (2819).
HOW CAN SUCH A CAPACITY OF Pramanas-WHICH IS NON-ETERNAL, AS COMING INTO EXISTENCE THROUGH THE EFFICIENCY OF ITS CAUSE,- BE HELD BY YOU TO BE NATURAL' IN.
HERENT'?-(2819)
COMMENTARY
Further, if the Pramūnas are non-different from the said Capacity', they would themselves, like the capacity, be eternal nad without cause. --This is what is pointod out in the following:
TEXT (2820)
IF THE CAPACITY' (OF Pramanas) WERE NATURAL (INHERENT),
THE Pramānas THEMSELVES WOULD HAVE TO BE REGARDED AS • eternal and without cause. BECAUSE Pramäņas WOULD BE OF THE SAME NATURE, THEY WOULD SURELY BE ETERNAL
AND WITHOUT CAUSE. -(2820)
COMMENTARY.
Question :-"What is the harm if that is so?" Answers
TEXTS (2821-2822).
IN THE EVENT OF THE Pramānas BEING without cause, THEY WOULD BE EITHER PERMANENTLY existent OR PERMANENTLY non-existent; BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT BE DEPENDENT UPON ANYTHING; UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE EFFECT CONTINGENT UPON THOSE Pramānas COULD NOT BE occasional ;-AS A MATTER OF FACT, HOWEVER, THE form AS WELL AS The effect or Pramāņas IS FOUND TO BE 0000sional ;-HENCE IT IS CLEAR THAT FOR YOU, THE CAPACITY' IN QUESTION CANNOT BE NATURAL' (IN
HERENT).-(2821-2822)
COMMENTARY.
If they are without cause, they must either exist for ever, or never exist at all. That in the event of their eternality, they must exist for ever-is well known; hence it has not been mentioned separately.
