Prasannapada · Chapter 21
tatra karotīti kārakaḥ kartā | kurvāṇasyaiva kiṃcit kārakavyapadeśo nākurvāṇasya | tacca karaṇaṃ sadbhūtasya vā kartuḥ parikalpyeta, asadbhūtasya vā, sadasadbhūtasya vā? kriyate iti karma karturīpsitatamam | tadapi trividham, sadbhūtamasadbhūtaṃ sadasadbhūtaṃ ca | tatra sadbhūtaḥ kārakaḥ kriyāyuktaḥ sadbhūtaṃ kriyāyuktaṃ karma na karotītyekā pratijñā | idānīmasadbhūto 'pi kriyākārakarahito 'sadbhutaṃ kriyārahitaṃ karma na karotītyaparā pratijñā
tatrādyāṃ prasādhayitumāha-
sadbhūtasya kriyā nāsti karma ca syādakartṛkam |
kriyānibandhanatvātkārakavyapadeśasya, karoti kriyāyukta eva kaścitsadbhūtaḥ kārakavyapadeśaṃ labhate, tataśca tasyaivaṃvidhasya kriyāhetukalabdhakārakavyapadeśasya aparā kriyā nāsti yayā karma kuryāt | kriyābhāvācca yadā kārakaḥ karma na karoti, tadā kārakanirapekṣamakartṛkaṃ karma syāt | na cākartṛkaṃ karma saṃbhavati bandhyāsūnoriva ghaṭakaraṇamiti | evaṃ tāvat
sadbhūtasya kriyā nāsti karma ca syādakartṛkam |
iti doṣaprasaṅgāt sadbhūtaḥ kārakaḥ karma na karoti |
idānīṃ sadbhūtamapi karma kārako na karotīti pratipādayannāha-
sadbhūtasya kriyā nāsti kartā ca syādakarmakaḥ
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