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say whether these verses occurring in the Bhāṣya have been quoted from San mati or other such works or whether they are originally in the text. Rather he regards these verses as belonging to the author himself, but a minute examination of these verses convinces a student that the author of Bhasya has quoted them from some other source in order to support his own view-point expressed in the Gathas 2103 and 2194. It is an ordinary phenomenon in Samskṛta or Prakṛta composition that a verse originally taken as a quotation from other works comes to be regarded as a verse belonging to the composition itself1. We think that the two verses in the Bhāṣya are taken from Sanmati. There are two reasons for this supposition. The first is this that these two verses are not found in anyother work except Sanmati and the second point is this that these two verses perfectly suit the context in Sanmati, whereas they do not at all suit the context in the Viseṣāvas yaka Bhāṣya, On the other hand, if we take these verses as belonging to Bhaṣya, they appear to be unnecessarily repetitions and must be regarded redundant2. Such is not the case with Sanmati, for in Sanmati ( 3.48)
1 In the Chapter Third of Sastravārtā, for instance, the third and the fourth verses are taken from some author, but a cursory reader is not able to detect this.
Again in the Tatvasañgraha, the Karikas 912-914 belong to Bhamaha and some Karikas after this belong to Kamaril. But a cursory reader would regard all the Karikas as belonging to the original Text.
2 On the occassion of the discussion of Dravyakaraṇa, twenty one Gathas have been written in Bhāspya (2098 to 2118). Upto Gatha 2103 the discussion of " is over.
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