Sarvadarshanasangraha 15.138

15.138

yacchabdena lakṣyata ity ākhyāte guṇībhūtaṃ pratipādanamātraṃ parāmṛśyate/ sā lakṣaṇeti pratinirdiśyamānāpekṣayā tacchabdasya strīliṅgatopapattiḥ/ tad uktaṃ kaiyaṭaiḥ — nirdiśyamānapratinirdiśyamānayor aikyam āpādayanti sarvanāmāni paryāyeṇa tattalliṅgam upādadata iti/ tatra karmaṇi kuśala ityādi rūḍhilakṣaṇāyā udāharaṇam/ kuśāṃl lātīti vyutpattyā darbhādānakartari yaugikaṃ kuśalapadaṃ vivecakatvasārūpyāt pravīṇe pravartamānam anādivṛddhavyavahāraparamparānupātitvenābhidhānavat prayojanam anapekṣya pravartate/ tad āha —

By the relative pronoun 'yat' (that which), mere indication, which is subordinate in the verb 'is indicated' (lakṣyate), is referred to. The feminine gender of the correlative pronoun 'sā' (that) is accounted for in view of the predicate noun 'lakṣaṇā' (indication). That was stated by Kaiyaṭa: "Pronouns bringing about the identity of the noun being referred to and the noun referring to it adopt the respective gender alternately." There, "skillful in work" (karmaṇi kuśalaḥ) and the like is an example of conventional indication. The word kuśala, which by etymology ("he who plucks kuśa grass") is an etymological derivative denoting an agent who gathers darbha grass, operates in the sense of 'expert' through similarity in discriminative discernment; operating in conformity with the continuous stream of beginningless usage of elders, it operates without regard to any purpose, just like primary denotation (abhidhā). Thus he says: