Tibetan Citations Of Bhartaharis Verses And Problem Of His Date

Author(s): Hajime Nakamura
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TIBETAN CITATIONS OF BHARTRHARI'S VERSES AND THE PROBLEM OF HIS DATE. by Hajime NAKAMURA University of Tokyo . About twenty years ago, the illustrious scholar to whom we are dedicating this commemoration volume pointed out the fact that some verses of a Vedantin called Bhadrahari(?) is mentioned in the Tibetan version of some philosophical works of later Mahayana Buddhism. The author of the present article wants to elaborate on the problem, gathering Tibetan verses ascribed to him, and collating some of them with Sanskrit originals which have been identified by the author. In the first place the following verse is cited in the Tibetan version of the Mahayana-sutralamkara-tika, a commentary by No-bo-nid med-pa (=Asva'bhava) upon the Mahayanasutralamkara : (fr. 1.) Bha dri ha ri(s) ji skad du / | nam mkhah sa lun ni ma dan || rgya mtsho glin dan phyogs rnams ni / nan gi ses pahi no bo yi// cha las phyi rol lta bur hhug / ces bsad pa lta bu yin no // hdzin pahi don las bzun bahi don tha mi dad mthon baho // shes bya ba ni gzun ba dan hdzin paui rnam par ses pa kho nar zad kyi rnam par ses pa la ma rtogs pa byis pas kun brtags pa mig la sogs pa hdsin pahi don ni yod pa ma yin no shes bya bar te / dehi phyir don du snan ba thams cad sems kho na yin par ltahi / don sems las gshan par ni mi blta ho // dehi tshe ni hdihi gzun ba la rnam par gyen pa spans la hdzin pahi rnam par rtog pa hbah shig lus te/de ni bzod pahi gnas skabs yin no! "As was declared by Bhadrahari... 'Ether, earth, wind, the sun, the sea, continents and directions ... they exist like external things, having been manifested from the in nermost, proper portions of the interior intelligence (=adhyatmajnana)." 1 Prof. Susumu Yamaguchi, " 19 " VIII, Kyoto 1114 (1936), pp. 152-153. 2 His comment upon Dharmaparyesti 5. Bstan-hgyur of the Peking edition, XLV, 90 a, 8-b, 1.

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BHARTRHARI'S VERSES 123 Then follows Asvabhava's annotation, in which he says, "So everythings which has been manifested as an object is regarded as nothing but mind, and objects are not regarded as separate from mind." So we can assuredly conclude that Asyabhava himself recognized in Bhadrahari's assertion something similar to the thought of Buddhist Idealism (vijnaptimatrata). The Sanskrit original of the above-cited Tibetan verse is the following one: dyauh ksamavayur adityah sagarah sarito disah / antahkaranatattvasya bhaga bahir avasthitah // -Vakyapadiya III, 7, 41 (p. 200) 3 (cf. antahkaranadharmo va bahir evam prakasate /- ibid., III, 6, 23. p. 170). In the Arya-Lankavatara-vrtti by Jnanasribhadra there are the following verses. fr. 2) de bas na Bha dra ha ris byed pa bstan pa las smras pa / grub dan ma grub ji sned pa / bsgrub pahi phyir ni bstan par bya / rten pahi rim (23 b) gyi ran bsin phyir / de ni byed par brjod pa ho // ses pa ste / byed pa dpyad zin to // Tr.- " Therefore it was told in a treatise written by Bhadrahari In so far as a thing 'attained or a thing not yet attained should be denoted in order to be established, On account of its essence being the order to be resorted to, it is declared to be an action." (=yavat siddham asiddham va sadhyatvenabhidhiyate / asritakramarupatvat kriyeti pratiyate //)4 . (cf. kriyayah parinispattir yad vyaparad anantaram / vivaksyate yada tatra karanatvam tada smotam // Vakyap. III, 7, b, 89. p. 237.) (fr. 3)5 tshans par smra ba po bha ta ha ri la sogs pa yan smra ba ! thog ma med pahi tshans pa rtag/ yan dag sgra ni yig hbru gan / gan las don dnos hbyun ba dan / hgro bahi rab tu byed pa yan // 3 Vakyapadiya, ed. by Pandit Ramachandra Sastri Kotibhaskara (Benares Sanskrit Series), Benares 1887 f., vol. 2, p. 200. According to the citation of the verse by Dr. Chakravarty antahkaranadharmasya instead of antahkaranatattvasya (Prabhatchandra Chakravarti: The Linguistic Speculations of the Hindus, University of Calcutta, 1933, p. 197). The reading of the Benares text corresponds with the Tibetan version. Vakyapadiya III, 8 (kriyasamuddesa), 1. p. 298 (Benares Sanskrit Series). However, the verse cited by Dr. Chakravarti reads vyapadisyate instead of pratiyate. (P. Chakravarti: op. cit. p. 237) 5 All citations henceforth are taken from the Peking edition,

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124 HAJIME NAKAMURA (fr. 4) gan yons rtogs pa thams cad la/ (127 a) snan bar yan ni mi gnas te/ rtog pa lun dan rjes dpag pas / rnam pa du mar kun brtags paho // (fr. 5) hdas kyan hdu hdzi byed pa dan / dnos dan dnos med rim mi rim/ bden dan brdzun par sna tshogs bdag / dben pa las ni rab tu snan // (fr. 6) hbyun po rnams kyi nan rgyu ba/ hgran dan rim duhan snan ba ste / thar pa rab tu grol ba de / grol hdod rnams kyis bstan par byed // (fr. 7) de yi tshor ba gcig po yan / rnam pa man por rab tu hbyed/ hjig pa hbyun bahi me mdag dan/ chu yi phun por chu bshin du // (fr. 8) de phyir da rod rigs gnas pa/ gsal bahi gron rnams hbyur ba ni / sprin rnams char dan idan pa rnams / rlun las hbyun ba bshin duho // (fr. 9) gsum gyi gzugs su de snan ba/ mur smra tha dad rnams la ni/ mchog gi yons su hgyur ba ste / Ita ba tha dad kyis ni bcins // (fr. 10) shi shin rigs bdag tshans pa ste/ de las byun bahi ma rig pa/ des ni srin po bshin du med/ gan smra mi nus rnam dag go // (fr. 11)ji ltar nam mkhah rnam dag par/ rab rib hkhrul pahi skyes bu yis/ ri mo rnam pa sna tshogs kyis/ kun tu gan bar sems pa pa // de ltar tshans pa bdud rtsi hdi / hgyur ba med pa ma rig pas / rnog pa lta bur byas pas na / tha dad gzugs su snan ba ste // (fr. 12) lha sa rlun dan nam mkhah dan/ ri dan chu dan phyogs rnams kyan / nan du byed pahi yan dag gi/ cha rnams phyi rol bshin du gnas // (fr. 13) tshul ni gcig nid gan yin las / tha dad mthu ni rnam gnas pas/ mthu las tha dad ma yin yan/ tha dad bshin du hbyun baho // (fr. 14) tshans sgrahi hdi ni sprul pa ste/ sgra yi mthu las gnas pas na/ sgra tsam las ni byun ba yan/

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BHARTRHARI'S VERSES 125 de dag nid du sha bar hgyur // (fr. 15) rab tu byed pa gcig hbyed la / man por rab tu phye ba pa / de ni (127 b) lun ston rtogs pa las / tshans pa mchog ni chud par hgyur // shes rgya cher ro // Tr... * Bhatahari and others, who are brahmavadins, also say: (fr. 3) The beginningless, eternal Brahman, whose essence is Word and Syllable (aksara, undestructable) . . . , from That, things have evolved, and the function of the world also has appeared." (=anadinidhanam brahma sabdatattvam yad aksaram/ vivartate' rthabhavena prakriya jagato yatah//_ Vakyap. I, I) (fr. 4) Whatever has appeared by dint of imaginary assumption (parikalpa) does not abide. Imaginary assumptions appear in various forms by dint of ratiocination (tarka, vitarka), scriptural dogma (agama) and reasoning (anumana).' (cf. Vakyp. II, v, 143, p. 140; III, 4, 1-2, p. 139; III, 14, v. 199. p. 550) (fr. 5) 'Separation and connection (samsarga), being (bhava) and nonbeing (abhava), order (temporal sequence) and non-order (simultaneity), truth and falsehood, various things are manifested from Atman, the Truth. (cf. avirodhi virodhi va sann asan vapi tattvatah / kramavan akramo vapi nabhava upapadyate / Vakyap. III, 3, 66, p. 130) (cf. II, 317. p. 214.) (fr. 6) "(It is the internal cause of beings (bhuta), which put forth effort and appear in time (temporal sequence). Deliverance is to be saved and relieved. This is taught by those who wish for deliverance. (fr. 7) The sensation (vedana) of it is divided in a uniform and multiform way. It is like water in contrast with the multitude of waters and like flames which flare and vanish.' (cf. Vakyap. II, 252; 480) (fr. 8) "Therefore a man who now belongs to a superior clan becomes (a member) of a distinctive family (kula) as when many clouds bearing water are born of winds.' (fr. 9) It appears in three forms. To (those thinkers who adhere to various extremes, it (=one of these) becomes the supreme one. They are bound by various heretical opinions (drsti). (fr. 10) Brahman is Atman, which is to be known by tranquility, and from

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126 HAJIME NAKAMURA which ignorance (avidya) appears. By means of it (it) does not exist like raksasas (demons), which are of such a nature as can not be explained.' (fr. 11) The Sanskrit verse corresponding to this verse and parallel verses are found in several works. We shall discuss it later. (fr. 12) "Gods (deva), earth, the wind, the ether, mountains, water and directions are what the internal essential portion has manifested as if they were things external.' (cf. fr. 1.) (fr. 13) Whereas there exist various potentialities (sakti) different from the entity of one form, yet that is not different from potentialities. They appear as if they were different.' ekam eva yad amnatam bhinnam saktivyapasrayat / aprthaktve 'pi saktibhyah prthaktveneva vartate // Vakyap. I, 2.) (cf. Vakyap. 11, v. 22, p. 78; v. 25, p. 79; v. 476, p. 279; III, 1, v. 20. p. 23; III, 14, v. 567. p. 714.) (fr. 14) "This is the transformation (emanation of sabdabrahman.. Abiding by the potentialities of Words, they become tranquil in themselves, although they have arisen from Words alone.' ( S sabdasya parinamo 'yam ity amnayavido viduh / chandobhya eva prathamam etad visvam vyavartata? // Vakyap. I, 121) (cf. Vakyap. II, 31. p. 82) (fr. 15) As the one entity is divided into many by means of various creative processes, the highest brahman will be attained by resorting to the science of) grammar. (=Yad ekam prakriyabhedair bahudha pravibhajyate / tad vyakaranam agamya param brahmadhigamyate// Vakyap. I, 22.) So the problem has been discussed in detail." (fr. 16) (42. 138a8) de bsin du nam mkhahi yan nam mkhahi kho na ste / bro ba la sogs pa du ma dan sbyor bas yul tha dad par brtags pa ste / man pohi gnas na nam rakhahi kho naho shes bha dra ha ris smras pa ho // "Likewise there exists ether alone for ether. The object (place) is regarded as differing with adjuncts and with desires of various kinds. Although there exist many things in ether, there is ether alone in reality' 6 The negative character of the absolute was stressed by Yajnavalkya, the Upanishadic thinker; and later in the Kathapa-Up. (II, 6, 9; 12). 7 It seems that the Tibetan translator took vyavartata in the original for nyavartata.

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127 BHARTRHARI'S VERSES ...So spoke Bhadrahari." (=samyogidharmabhedena dese ca parikalpite / tesu desesu samanyam akasasyapi vidyate // -- Vakyap. III, 15. p. 20) (42. 138 b--139a) mtshan nid kyi tshig ces bya ba ni smra ba rnams kyi rjod pahi don du hbyed pas na rtsod pa yan man ste / yi ge ma gtogs tshig gshan ni // yod pa ma yin brjod pa ni / yi ge tshig ni ma gtogs par (139a) cun zad kyan ni yod pa min shes dpyod pa can gyi rjes su mthun par bya ste / Bhadra haris bsad pa / (fr. 17) smras pahi sgra kyan hdus pa ni / rigs ni hjug par hgyur ba ste / gcig bu yan lag med pahi sgra / blo yis rigs su bsdu ba ho // (fr. 18) thog mahi tshig ni so sor kun / bltos dan bcas te de Itar yan / brjod pahi phyir ni tha dad blo / tshul smra rnams kyi rnam pa man // shes te / *" Bhadrahari says: (fr. 17) "Spoken Words, having been gathered, are classified into classes (jati). A single, undifferentiated word is put in a class by the mind (of hearers).' (=sva jatih prathamam sabdaih sarvair evabhidhiyate / tato 'rthajatirupesu tadadhyaro pakalpana // -- Vakyap. III, 6.) (fr. 18) "The first syllables (aksara) have each of them something to be seen (visible aspect) and express (meaning) in such a way, that the capability (of hearers to interpret them) is multiple. There are many kinds of those expressing ways.?" ( Eekasminn api disye 'rthe darsanam bhidyate prthak / kalantarena vaiko 'pi tam pasyaty anyatha punah // ekasyapi ca sabdasya nimittair avyavasthitaih / ekena bahubhis cartho bahudha parikalpyate //- vakyap. II, 138; 139, pp. 138-139.) (cf. Vakyap. II, v. 33. p. 82) Bhavya, the Madhyamika philosopher, commenting upon Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka-sastra IX, 3 cites the following verse : 8 8 This verse is not found in the corresponding passage in the Chinese translation by Prabhamitra of Bhavaviveka's Prajnapradipa ( A , , ** W , WE S, Taisho Tripitaka, vol. XXX, p. 82c). According to Prof. Nozawa it is likely that this verse was omitted by tne translator.

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128 HAJIME NAKAMURA (a..." . (fr. 19) lon ba rkan pahi tshod dpags kyis / nam nahi lam du rgyug pa Itar / rjes su dpag pa gtsor hdsin pa / rnam par Itun ba mi dkaho // ***........a) shes bya ba lta bur hgyur ro she na / de ni rigs pa ma yin te / Avalokita vrata comments upon this as follows: don de nid bsal bar bya bahi phyir slob dpon bha ndri ha ris rjes su dpag pa sun phyun bahi khuns bstan pahi phyir/a ... a) shes bya ba smras te/dper na lon ba rkan pahi tshod dpag gis lam bde ba spans te nam nahi lam du rgyug pa sin la sogs pa dag gis brdos pa la rdeg hchah sin rnam par ltun ba mi dkah ba de bshin du/yid ches pasi lun spans pa rjes su dpag pahi tshod dpag gis rtog ge skam pohi lam du rgyug pa dag kyan tshe hdi la yan hkhrul pahi gcod par hgyur la/tshe phyi ma la yan hbras bu mi hdod par rnam par Itun bar hgyur ro shes zer ro / The Sanskrit original of the cited verse s@ems to have been the following: "hastasparsadibadhena visame (=girimarge, Comm.) 'py abhid havata / anumanapradhanena vinipato na durlabhah//" (Vakyap. I, 42.) "Just as a (blind) man who is running quickly on a dangerous pass in the mountains) may fall down if he fails to cling by hand, so it is not impossible for a man who chiefly relies upon his own reasoning (lit. inference) to fall down into a hell)." The Tibetan version seems to have a free translation for the first quarter of the verse. Bhartphari asserted that the knowledge derived from scriptures alone is of absolute value, whereas that derived from other sources is of relative value. He denounced the validity of reasoning. (cf. Vakyap. I, 30; 31; 41, etc.) Among the above-mentioned verses, fr. (1) and fr. (12) are nearly identical to each other. It is likely that the same original verse was.cited in a slightly different way, as was mentioned, by the two scholars Asvabhava and Jnanasribhadra, who lived in different periods. It is note-worthy that we can find the apparent Sanskrit originals of some of the fragments in the Vakyapadiya of Bhartphari. As for some other fragments, also we find in this work verses of similar purport, as has been pointed out by the writer. Moreover, we should add that a verse which might be regarded as the original of fr. (11) is cited in the Tattvasamgrahapanjikadeg of Kamalasila. In the Sabdabrahmapariksa of the Tattvasamgraha by Santiraksita, the doctrine which admits sabda-brahman as the world-principle is attacked. Kamalasila, the commentator, explains that the author attacks Bhartshari's doctrine in the verses beginning with v. 128, and that he attacks "the doctrine of the opponent" . Ad v. 144, p. 72 (ed. by Embar Krishnamacharya, Baroda 1926, GOS, 30).

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BHARTRHARI'S VERSES 129 (paramata) in the verses beginning with v. 144. As an instance of the latter, he writes as follows: yathoktam ::: yatha visuddham akasam timiropapluto janah / samkirnam iva matrabhis citrabhir abhimanyate // tathedam amstam brahma nirvikaram avidyaya / kalusatvam ivapannam bhedarupam vivartatah // ji skad du/ ji ltar nam mkhah dag pa la/ rab rib kyis bslad skye bo yin/ rab rib sna tshogs dag dan ni / Idan pa bshin du mnon par rlom // de Itar bdud rtsi hgyur med pahi/ tshans pa hdi ni ma rig pas/ rnog pa bshin du hgyur ba ste / tha dad no bor rnam par hgyur // shes bsad pa lta buho / 10 (In the Sanskrit original of the foregoing Tibetan version, the final word seems to have been vivartate instead of vivartatah.) Ganganatha Jha's translation : ... " This has been thus declared :: :: 'Even though Akasa (Space) is pure, yet obsessed by darkness, people come to regard it as limited and made up of diversified parts; in the same manner, though Brahman is immortal and unmodifiable, yet It appears to be sullied by Nescience and hence diversely modified'.11 The foregoing verses, moreover, nearly completely correspond to two verses of the Brhadaranyakopani sad-bhasyal2 by Suresvara, a disciple of Sankara. (In the latter, amalam occurs instead of amstam, prakasate instead of vivartatah, upal aksayet instead of abhimanyate ; otherwise the passages completely the same. These two verses are also cited by Prabhacandra, the Jain scholar, in a passage of the Prameyakamala-martanda where he criticized 13 the doctrine of the sabdabrahmavadins. (In this text, amalam occurs instead of amTtam, bhedarupam prapasyati instead of bhedarupam vivartatah). Once again, the same verse is cited by Abhayadeva, the Jain scholar, in his work Tattvabodhavidhayini (p. 388), as a doctrine of the sabdabrahmavadins. (amalam instead of amstam, vivar 10 The Der-ge edition, Bstan-hgyur, vol. 293, 187b. 11 The Tattvasangraha of santaraksita with the Commentary of Kamalasila, tr. into English by Ganganatha Jha, vol. I, Baroda 1937, p. 126. 12 Ad III, 5, 43; 44. p. 1246, Anss. 13 p. 12 b, NSP.

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130 HAJIME NAKAMURA tate instead of vivartatah.) 14 Most strikingly, in the commentary (vrtti) by BhattaNarayanakantha upon the Mrgendragama, a very important, fundamental scripture of the Saivas, those verses are ascribed to Bhartphari, who is characterized as a vivartavadin, as follows : 15 tatha caha tatrabhavan BhartTharih... yatha visuddham akasam timiropapluto janah / samkirnam iva matrabhis citrabhir abhimanyate // tathedam amstam brahma nirvikaram avidyaya / kalusatvam ivapannam bhedarupe pravartate // evam cabhinnam evedam param brahma paramatmalaksanam, manasam hi samsaradharmaih sukhaduhkhadibhir yogah/paramatma tu surya ivambhahpratibimbabhedair upadhibhir abhinno'pi bhinna iva pratibhati/ The Sanskrit text by Narayanakantha seems to be the least affected form of the original verse.16 These verses seem to be of the same purport as the Man. dukya-karika III, 8. yatha bhavati balanam gaganam malinam malaih/ tatha bhavaty abuddhanam atmapi malino malaih // "As the sky appears to be soiled with dirt to the ignorat, so appears Atman, too, with impurities, to those who are not enlightened".!? The same view was shared by Sankara also.18 What is most striking from the viewpoint of the history of ideas is that verses very similar to the foregoing are given by Dignaga, the, Buddhist philosopher, in vv. 31.-32 of his Trikalapariksa as follows : 19 ji ltar nam mkhah rnam dag la/ rab rib kyis ni bslad pahi mi/ skra sad kyis ni kun gan ltar / sna tshogs su ni mnon par rtogs//31 de Itar hdir yan rnam ses ni / 14 The text is not now available to the author, who has read it in E. Frauwallner's Dignaga und anderes " (Festschrift Winternitz, S. 237). 15 Haranacandra Sastri : Sabdabrahmavadah. (G. Tha Commemoration Volume, p. 93.) 16 As for understanding the meaning of the verse, Anandajnana's tika upon the Brhad. Up. Varttika is highly valuable. 17 The Agamasastra of Gaudapada, edited, translated and annotated by Vidhushekhara Bhattacharyya, University of Calcutta, 1943, p. 53. 18 S. ad Brhad. Up. p. 152, 1. 24 ... na hi balais talamalinatadibhir vyomni vikalpyamane talamalinatadivisistam eva paramarthato vyoma bhavati (s. ad BS. I, 2, 8. vol. I, p. 184, 11. 5-7). vyomniva talamaladi parikalpitam (s. ad BS. I, 3, 19. vol. I, p. 279, 1. 7.). akase balas talamalinatady adhyasyanti (s. ad BS. I, I, 1, vol. I, p. 11. AnSS). Upadesasahasri, II, 18, 22. 19 The author has cited the verse from the above-mentioned Frauwallner's work.

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BHARTRHARI'S VERSES rnam par mi hgyur ma rig pas / chu rnog bshin du shugs pa ni / tha dad gzugs su rnam par hjug // 32 131 [Some noteworthy differences: skra sad kyis (kesondukaih) instead of matrabhih; hdir yan rnam ses ni (atrapi vijnanam eva) instead of idam amrtam (amalam) brahma.] Those verses cited in Tibetan versions should be considered as having probably been ascribed to Bhartrhari. Reasons: (1) Tibetan versions mention the name of the author of the verses as Bhadrahari, Bhadrihari, Bhatahari, Bharitehari or Bhandrihari. These names give ample testimony to the supposition that the original Sanskrit name of the author of those verses was a little difficult to transcribe with Tibetan characters, and so the name must have been Bhartrhari which could easily corrupted into any one of them. (2) We can find in the Vakyapadiya by Bhartrhari the Sanskrit original texts of at least 10 of these verses. As for some of the other verses we find similar verses in the same work. (3) Bhatta-Narayanakantha ascribed (fr. 11) to Bhartrhari. Although some of the above-mentioned verses can not be traced in the Vakyapadiya, the Bhartrharisataka or in collections of lyrical songs ascribed to him, it is possible that he might have composed 20 other works which are not extant now or that some of the verses might have been ascribed to him in later days.21 There are on the other hand some difficulties in identifying Bhadrahari etc. with Bhartrhari. However these difficulties will be easily solved by the following considerations: (1) It is a well-known fact that Bhartrhari adopted the standpoint of emanation-theory (parinamavada), whereas the standpoint made clear in (fr. 11) is, as Narayana-kantha asserts, manifestation-theory (vivartavada). These two standpoints were strictly distinguished from each other by later Vedantins.22 It seems that the author of (fr. 11) would be different from Bhartrhari, the author of the Vakyapadiya. However, in the days when these verses were composed these two philosophical standpoints were not strictly distinguished from each other. Bhartrhari himself used the two terms (parinama and vivarta) as nearly the same meaning,23 just as the Brahma-sutras used many similes which 20 The Epigrams Attributed to Bhartrhari, ed. by D. D. Kosambi (Singhi Jain Series, vol. No. 23). Bombay 1948. This work contains not only the famous three satakas, but also the Vitavrtta, Vijnanasataka and many other poems ascribed to him. 21 Professor Louis Renou told the author that, according to the information by the late S. Dasgupta the editions of the Vakyapadiya published hithertofore do not contain all the verses of the work, and so it might be possible that those verses not identified by the author are found in unpublished MSS. 22 Paul Deussen: Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie I, 1, 4 Aufl., Leipzig 1920, S. 63 f. 23 The author discussed the problem in a Japanese work of his (E. p. 2390). Cf. Paul Hacker: Vivarta, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1953 Nr. 5.

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132 HAJIME NAKAMURA could be interpreted in different ways. (2) Hithertofore it has been generally supposed that Bhartrhari died forty years before I-tshing sojourned in India, following the information given by I-tsing himself.24 Accordingly Bhartrhari was regarded by J. Takakusu to have died in 651-652 A. D. If we examine this passage more closely, however, it becomes clear that in I-tsing's information there is something amiss. I-tsing said that Bhartrhari "was a contemporary of Dharmapala",25 and yet also that Dharmapala composed a commentary upon Bhartrhari's verses "26 These two are not consistent with each other. Let us discuss this problem. Dr. Hakuju Ui27 took the passage as meaning that Bhartrhari died forty years before the beginning of I-tsing's stay in the Nalanda monastery. According to his calculation Bhartrhari died c. 630 A. D. In the above-cited passage, however, he is said to have been a contemporary of Dharmapala who commented upon the Prakirnaka of Bhartrhari. The date of Dharmapala is wellknown; he lived 530-561 A. D. Now, Bhartrhari must have been somewhat Dharmapala's senior. Suppose that the former was older than the latter by, say, ten years; then Bhartrhari should have lived c. 520-630. If we adopt Takakusu's view, he must be supposed to have lived c. 520-652. Needless to say, this supposition is absurd. We are brought to the conclusion that either (1) the information that "Bhartrhari died forty years before I-tsing" is wrong or (2) the information that Dharmapala commented upon Bhartrhari's work is wrong. We shall take up this problem in another light. Mr. H. R. Rangaswamy Iyengar 28 made clear the fact that Bhartrhari lived in an age not so remote from that of Vasubandhu. He asserts as follows: "In the second Kanda of the Vakyapadiya, while describing how the science of grammar, which had been almost extinct, was restored and propagated by the great grammarians, Chandra and Vasurata, Punyaraja, the commentator of the Vakyapadiya, mentions several times Vasurata as the teacher of Bhartrhari.29 In the Karika 490 of the Vakyapadiya 30 Bhartrhari himself seems to refer to his teacher Vasurata by 'Guruna' as is evident from the words of 24 "It is forty years since his death (A. D. 651-652)." (J. Takakusu: A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago. Oxford 1896. p. 180) 25 J. Takakusu: op. cit., p. 179. 26, Taisho, vol. LIV, p. 229. 27 E vol. V, p. 130. 28 H. R. Rangaswamy Iyengar: "Bhartrhari and Dignaga" (Sri Atmananda Prakasa, published by "Jain Atmananda Sabha ", Bhavnagar, 1952, p. 27 f. The author obtained a copy by courtesy of Mr. Muni Jambuvijay). 29 na tenasmadguros tatrabhavato Vasuratad anyah kascid imam bhasyarnavam avagahitum. alam ity uktam bhavati (Punyaraja ad II, 486). kenacic ca brahmaraksasaniya Candracarya-Vasurataguruprabhrtinam datta iti / te [taih?] khalu yathavat vyakaranasya svarupam tata upalabhya satatam ca sisyanam vyakhyaya bahusakhitvam nito vistaram prapita ity anusruyate (ad II, 489). 30 Cf. II, 490b: pranito gurunasmakam ayam agamasamgrahah.

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BHARTRHARI'S VERSES 133 Punyaraja prefaced to the verse.31 Again a Jain writer, Simhasurigani, who may be assigned to the beginning of the sixth century A. D., in his unpublished work, Nayacakratika, a commentary on the Nayacakra of Mallavadin the senior,32 which is not now extant, mentions, twice in his work, Vasurata the Upadhyaya of Bharthari.33 This confirms the statement of Punyaraja and establishes that Vasurata was a great grammarian of the day under whom Bharthari studied and that Bhartshari often held views quite different from those of his master. According to Paramartha, Vasurata was a Brahmin and brother-in-law of Baladitya, a pupil of Vasubandhu.34 He was well-versed in grammar. He defeated Vasubandhu, through the intervention of Chandra, another great grammarian. This means that Vasurata, Chandra, and Vasubandhu should be regarded as contemporaries and Bhartshari, the pupil of Vasurata, assigned to the fifth century A. D." Another piece of evidence of much more importance was discovered by him. In the fifth chapter of Dignaga's Pramana-samuccaya, which is devoted to the exposition of the Apoha theory, the following two Karikas are found : thigs pa dan ni tshogs pa yi / chu sogs rnams la rjod byed ni / grans dan tshad dan dbyibs rnams la/ Itos pa med par hjug par byed // dbyibs dan kha dog yan lag rnams/ khyad par can la gan hjug pa! de yi yan lag la sgra ni / rab tu hjug la dun asma yi // (The above-mentioned Tibetan verses have been cited from Mr. Iyengar's article. According to the Sde-dge edition of the Tibetan Buddhist Canons kept by Tohoku University, Sendai, the sentences run as follows: : la lar dnos su rjod par byed de dper na / grans dan mtshan nid dan ni dbyibs / Itos pa med par rab tu hjug / chu la sogs pahi thigs pa dan / hdus pa la yan rjod par byed // 31 Cf. ibid.: atha kadacit yogato vicarya tatra bhagavata Vasurataguruna mamayam agamah samjnaya vatsalyat pranita iti svaracitasya granthasya gurupurvakam abhidhatum aha. 39 This Mallavadin should be distinguished from another Jain writer of the same name who is the author of Nyayabindutippani. 33 Cf. Nayacakrafika, folio 272 a: ... so 'bhijalpo 'bhidheyarthaparigrahi bahyac chabdad anya iti Bhartpharyadimatam / Vasuratasya Bhartpharyupadhyayasya matam tu.... Cf. ibid., folio 277a : ...evam tavat Bhartpharyadidarsanam uktam / Vasuratah Bhartsharer upadhyayah 34 Cf. "A study of Paramartha's life of Vasubandhu and the Date of Vasubandhu" by J. Takakusu FRAS, 1905, pp. 33 ff.

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134 HAJIME NAKAMURA la lar yan lag hbah shig la hjug pa ma yin te / dper na / dbyibs dan kha dog cha sas kyis / khyad par byas nas hjug pa yin/ sgra yis de yi cha sas la / rab tu hjug pa dmigs ma yin // A restoration into Sanskrit of these verses might easily correspond to the following verses in the Vakyapadiya : bindau ca samudaye ca vacakah saliladisu / samkhyapramanasamsthananirapeksah pravartate // (Vakyap. II, 160.) 35 samsthanavarnavayavair visiste yah prayujyate/ sabdo na tasyavayave pravrttir upalabhyate //(Vakyap. II, 157.) This means that either Dignaga took the Karikas from Bhartphari's work or both Dignaga and Bhartphari took them from quite a different work. But there is no evidence to support the latter alternative. We learn from Jinendrabuddhi, author of Visalamalatika on the Pramana-samuccaya-vrtti of Dignaga, that Dignaga, is here referring to the views of Bhartphari. 36 This evidently supports the former alternative that Dignaga is quoting from Bhartphari. The foregoing are the pieces of evidence set forth by Mr. H. R. Rangaswamy Iyengar. But whereas he has pointed out just one Tibetan citation of a verse by Bhartshari, we have in addition pointed out many citations of his verses. Taking all these pieces of evidence into consideration, we have to conclude that Bhartshari must have lived prior to, or at latest contemporary with, Dignaga, Asvabhava (No-bo-nid med-pa), Bhavya (Bhavaviveka) and Dharmapala. There has been much dispute about the date of Dignaga.37 Randle once. said that "all that can be said with certainty is that he lived somewhere between 350 A. D. and 500 A. D." 38 According to most scholars he lived about 500 A. D.39 Dr. H. Ui fixed his date as c. 400-480, on the ground that he 35 The first and the second halves are given in reverse order in the edition of the Benares Sanskrit Series. (p. 185) 33 Cf. Visalamalatika: Mdo. re, folio 331 b. 1. 6 ff. : kha cig tu gtso bor cha tshas rnams la hjug te / bha rite haris yis smras pa / cha sogs rnams la zes pahi sogs pahi sgras. sa la yons su gzun no/(=kva cit tu mukhya avayavesu vsttih / yathoktam Bhartsharina saliladisv iti adisabdena prthivyadinam parigrahah ) 37 According to Taranatha, Dignaga was a pupil of Vasubandhu (Taranatha's Geschichte des Buddhismus in Indien, ubersetzt von Anton Schiefner, St. Petersburg 1869, S. 131). 38 H. N. Randle: Fragments from Dinnaga. London 1926, p. 3. In another work he says: "Dinnaga's date shares the uncertainty attaching to that of his master Vasubandhu. He may fall anywhere between 400 and 500 A. D." (Randle : Indian Logic in the Early Schools. Oxford University press, 1930 p. 27). 39 Moritz Winternitz: Geschichte der ichenndis Litteratur, Bd. III. Leipzig 1920. S. 467. Louis Renou et Jean Filliozt: L'Inde Classique, tome II. Paris 1953, p. 380.

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BHARTRHARI'S VERSES must have lived a little earlier than Gunamati ().40 The latter must have lived prior to Paramartha's arrival in Kuang-tung in China in 546 A. D. and earlier than Sthiramati.41 Sthiramati must have lived in the sixth century 42 or according to Dr. Ui, c. 470-550.43 Winternitz assigns him to the fifth century.44 Recently Professor Hikata has surmised that the date of Dignaga is about 440 -520.45 It is generally admitted that Asvabhava lived earlier than Dharmapala and later than Dignaga. He lived, according to Dr. Ui, c. 450-530 A. D.,46 and, according to Prof. Hikata, c. 470-550 A. D.47 Bhavya was almost contemporary with Buddhapalita (c. 400-450?).48 He is regarded to have lived and worked at the beginning of the fifth century A. D.49 According to Dr. Ui, he lived c. 490-570.50 In any case he was an elder contemporary of Dharmapala. The date of Dharmapala () has precisely been fixed. He lived 530-561 A. D.51 135 So we can assuredly say that Bhartrhari must not have lived later than these Buddhist scholars. It has become clear that the statement of I-tsing that Bhartrhari died some forty years before the date of his record is incorrect. It is, however, doubtless the case that Bhartrhari lived after Vasubandhu, as is clear from the above-cited materials. Vasubandhu is generally regarded to have lived in the fourth century,52 or in the latter half of the fourth century.53 According to Dr. Ui, Vasubandhu lived c. 320-400.54 According to Prof. Hikata, he lived c. 400-480.55 Frauwallner asserted the existence of two Vasubandhus, ascribing the elder to 320-380 A. D. and the younger to 400480 A.D.56 Such has been the extent of the debate about his date. So, taking these facts into account, we are brought to the conclusion that Bhartrhari, the author of the Vakyapadiya, must have lived c. 450-500 A. D. 40", vol. V, pp. 142-145. 41 Cf. ibid., p. 136. 42 Filliozat: op. cit., p. 380. 43 H. Ui: op. cit., p. 136. 44 M. Winternitz History of Indian Literature, vol. II. University of Calcutta, 1933. pp. 362-363. 45 Gan Xi Long Xiang :Shi Qin Nian Dai Zai Kao ([Yin Du Xue Fo Jiao Xue Lun Ji ----Gong Ben Zheng Zun Jiao Shou Huan Li Ji Nian Lun Wen Ji ----] San Sheng Tang , Zhao He Er Jiu Nian ,p.321). 46 H. Ui: op. cit., p. 147. 47 R. Hikata: op. cit., p. 321. 48 J. Filliozat: op. cit., p. 379. 49 M. Winternitz: History, etc. II, p. 362. 50 H. Ui: op. cit., pp. 148-149. 51 H. Ui: op. cit., pp. 128-132; R. Hikata: op. cit., p. 321. 52 M. Winternitz: History, etc. II, p. 355 f. 53 J. Filliozat: op. cit., II, p. 380. 54 H. Ui: "op. cit, ", vol. I, pp. 413-414. 55 R. Hikata: op. cit. pp. 315 f. 56 E. Frauwallner: On the Date of the Buddhist Master of the Law Vasubandhu. Roma 1951. All different views about Vasubandhu's date have been mentioned in this work.

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136 HAJIME NAKAMURA At the end of this article the author should not fail to mention the names of the scholars who kindly helped him in carrying on this study. Prof. Yamaguchi introduced him to Dr. Kensho Hasuba and Dr. Kyogo Sasaki, who went over No-bo-nid med-pa's works in order to discover the suspected citations of Bhartshari's verses. Prof. Josho Nozawa kindly informed him of Bhavya's citation of a verse of Bhartphari. Dr. Bunkyo Aoki and Prof. Shinya Kasugai did not spare efforts to give the author valuable suggestions. Here the author wants to express his sincere gratitude to these scholars, without whose kind help this article could not have been brought to its present state of completion. P. S. Referring to the Vijnanavada, Bhartshari says: 'kecid vyavsttirupam tu dravyatvena pracaksate/(Vakyap. 3, 1, 19. p. 22.) This must refer to later Buddhist Idealists, not to such earlier ones as Asanga and Vasubandhu. If so, the date of Bhartphari should not be fixed in a period much earlier than was set forth above. The Sanskrit original of the above-mentioned fragment No. 5 is found in the commentary by Vrsabhadeva upon the Vakyapadiya. As the text is not now available to the writer, he wants to cite Dr. Hacker's explanation: "In einer Reihe von 12 Strophen, die der Kommentar zitiert, befindet sich die folgende (p. 7,1-2): Vyatito bheda-samsargau bhavabhavau kramakramau Satyanste ca visvatma pravivekat prakasate," (Paul Hacker : Vivarta. Studien zur Geschichte der illusonistischen Kosmologie und Erkenntnistheorie der Inder. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1953. Nr. 5. S. 205.) Dr. Hacker takes this anonymous verse for a later development. Taking the above-cited Tibetan version into consideration, however, the present writer thinks that this verse also should be ascribed to Bhartphari. He expresses his sincere gratitude to Dr. Hacker who kindly sent him copies of his valuable works.