Prasannapada · Chapter 15
tatra rāgaḥ saktiradhyavasānaṃ saṅgo 'bhiniveśa iti paryāyāḥ | rakto rāgāśrayaḥ | sa yadi rakto rāgātpūrvaṃ rāgatiraskṛto rāgarahito bhavet, tadā taṃ rāgatiraskṛtaṃ raktaṃ pratītya rāgo bhavet | evaṃ sakti rakte rāgo bhavediti yuktam | na tvevaṃ saṃbhavati, yadrāgarahito raktaḥ syāt | arhatāmapi rāgaprasaṅgāt
yadyevaṃ sati rakte na rāgaḥ, asati tarhi rakte rāgo 'stu | etadapyayuktamityāha-
rakte 'sati punā rāgaḥ kuta eva bhaviṣyati |
yadā sati rakte rāgo nāsti, tadā kathamasati rakte nirāśrayo rāgaḥ setsyati? na hi asati phale tatpakvatā saṃbhavatīti ||
atrāha- yadyapi tvayā rāgo niṣiddhaḥ, tathāpi rakto 'sti, apratiṣedhāt | na ca rāgamantareṇa rakto yuktaḥ, tasmādayamapyastīti | ucyate | syādrāgo yadi raktaḥ syāt | yasmādayaṃ rakta iṣyamāṇaḥ sati vā rāge parikalpyeta, asati vā? ubhayathā ca nopapadyate ityāha-
sati vāsati vā rāge rakte 'pyeṣa samaḥ kramaḥ
Original text: Prasannapada · Edition: P.L. Vaidya: Madhyamakaśāstra of Nāgārjuna, with the Commentary: Prasannapadā by Candrakīrti. Darbhaga 1960 (Buddhist Sanskrit Texts, 10). · Data entry members of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Input Project · GRETIL (Göttingen) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0