Buddhist Logic v2.c19.s5: § 5. Comment of Vācaspatimiśra
Buddhist Logic v2.c19.s5
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§ 5. Comment of Vācaspatimiśra
v2.c19.s5.1
Tātp., p. 13. 12—13.
v2.c19.s5.2
(13. 12). In saying «this is wrong!» (the author of the Vārtika) rejects (the Buddhist theory) and explains (the reasons for doing it). That the theory is really such, (i. e., wrong), will be (repeatedly) stated here, (in the course of this our work).
v2.c19.s5.3
(Remark of Udayana, p. 114). If the Universal is unreal and the Absolute Particular alone ultimately real, the latter cannot be mixed with the former, because a combination of the real with the unreal is impossible. (The empirical individual thing is thus founded on an absurdity). The author says, «that this theory is wrong, (will be proved later on)». He wishes to say that the path (of Buddhist philosophy) leads into great depths (and cannot be lightly dealt with at present).
v2.c19.s5.4
(Remark of Vardhamāna, ibid.). Since the (Buddhist) onslaught leads into great depths, if the author would undertake to refute it here, it would make his text very heavy (reading ¹)!
v2.c19.s5.5
¹ This is the first short statement of Buddhist Idealism in the Tātparyaṭīkā. Its different phases will be repeatedly expounded and refuted in detail in the course of the work wheresoever the opportunity of doing it will present itself, cp. pp. 88 ff., 100 ff., 127 ff., 144 ff., 182 ff., 268 ff., 338 ff., 379. 25 ff., 463 ff. etc. etc. These subtlest Naiyāyiks, Udayana and Vardhamāna, deemed Buddhist philosophy an «impervious path», gahanaḥ panthāḥ.