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Dipradrishti's response to Kutarka's final answer "Svabhava"
(337) Svabhava (inherent nature) itself stands as the final answer; Kutarka is to be rejected, such is the impression of this, and this Svabhava is also not accessible to the Chadmastha (the deluded) through reasoning, because through the logic of Anyatha (otherwise), it is conceived as different from different perspectives.
Explanation:
This Kutarka (fallacious argument) that has been described has a specific nature - in this Kutarka, the final answer is "Svabhava" (inherent nature). When no other argument or logic works, then it is said that this is the Svabhava of the thing. It is said "Vastusvarupatah pramanavat" - to give the answer based on the inherent nature of the thing.
And this Svabhava is also not accessible to the Chadmastha (the deluded) through Tattva (reality). What is the Svabhava of a certain thing? To know that through Tattva is not the domain of the Chadmastha or the one whose knowledge is veiled. Why? Because through the logic of Anyatha (otherwise), it is conceived as different by different proponents. How? That is, the same Svabhava is conceived differently by different proponents.
For example, it can be said everywhere that the answer should be given based on the Svabhava of the thing - in the same way, in establishing its own Svabhava, it can be said. How? Through that by which it has the nature of performing the intended activity, it performs that activity, not by anything else. Because the acceptance of its intended activity is in all its modes, therefore, from wherever the occasion of its intended activity arises, the cause does not differ, therefore.
Thus, fire wets in the proximity of water, due to the nature of such Svabhava. And water burns in the proximity of fire, due to the nature of such Svabhava - due to the diversity of Svabhava. There are also other Svabhavas besides these examples, the universality of examples is easy. Therefore, this Kutarka is illogical, it is unreasonable, this is the purport of what is said.