Prasannapada · Chapter 20
ityācāryacandrakīrtipādoparacittāyāṃ prasannapadāyāṃ madhyamakavṛttau saṃskṛtaparīkṣā nāma saptamaṃ prakaraṇam ||
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karmakārakaparīkṣā aṣṭamaṃ prakaraṇam |
atrāha- vidyanta eva saṃskṛtasvabhāvato vijñānādayaḥ saṃskṛtā dharmāḥ, taddhetukakarmakārakasadbhāvāt | uktaṃ hi bhagavatā-
avidyānugato 'yaṃ bhikṣavaḥ puruṣapudgalaḥ puṇyānapi saṃskārānabhisaṃskaroti, apuṇyānapi, āniñjayānapi saṃskārānabhisaṃskaroti |
ityādinā karmaṇāṃ kārako vyapadiṣṭaḥ, tatkarmaphalaṃ ca vijñānādikamupadiṣṭam | yasya ca kārako 'sti, tadasti, tadyathā ghaṭaḥ | yannāsti, na tasya kārakaḥ, tadyathā kūrmaromaprāvārasyeti | ucyate | syādvijñānādikaṃ saṃskṛtaṃ yadi tasya niṣpādakakarmakārakau syātām | na tu staḥ | yasmāt-
sadbhūtaḥ kārakaḥ karma sadbhūtaṃ na karotyayam |
kārako nāpyasadbhūtaḥ karmāsadbhūtamīhate
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