वादावली ९४. अथ प्रमाणज्ञानं स्वप्रागभावव्यतिरिक्तस्वविषयावरणस्व निवत्र्यस्वदेशगतवस्त्वन्तरपूर्वकम् ; अप्रकाशितार्थप्रकाशकत्वात् ; अन्धकारे प्रथमोत्पन्नप्रदीपप्रभावात् इत्यनुमानं मानमस्तु । ९५. अत्र च प्रमाणज्ञानं वस्त्वन्तरपूर्वकमित्युक्त स्वप्रागभावेन सिद्धसाधनता । तन्निवृत्त्यर्थं स्वप्रागभावव्यतिरिक्तति पदम् । ९६. तथापि स्वप्रागभावव्यतिरिक्तस्वजनकसामग्रया सिद्धसाध नम् । तन्निवृत्त्यर्थं स्वविषयावरणेति पदम् । this valid cognition located in that (Devadatta) and (2) is beginningless, because it is a valid cognition, like the admitted (c५७gnition).' 94. Th(e1, let this inference be the authority : ' Valid cognitio1 has as amtecedent some other entity which is (1) other tha11 its own prior non-exist ence, (2) the obscurrer of its owrn content, (3) rem10vable by itself a11d (4) present in its own loctus, because it is the manifestor of an (0bject that was not manifested, 1ike the light of a jamp as it frst comes into existence 95. And here, if it be said that valid cognition has some other entity as antepedent there would be (the defect of) the establishment of the established, having regard to prior non-existence In order to remove it, there are the words * other than its own prior 101-existence. 96. . Even then (after defining valid cognition as that which has as antecedent some other entity other than its own prior non-existence) there is (the defect
