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Bhartrhari the grammarian philosopher, Uddyotakara, Isvarasena and Kumārila? - all these four a thors, although contemporaneous with Dharmakirti, must have been his somewhat elder. contemporaries be- . cause of the following considerations. Dharmakirti has been stated to be the disciple of Isvarasena and is also found, according to the commentators like Arcata, to criticise the views of Isvarasena in such treatises as the Hetubindu. Similarly, Dharmakirti strongly criticises the views of Uddyotakara, Bhartrhari and Kumārila as well. On the other hand there is no decisive evidence of any of these three authors criticising the, position of Dharniakirti.
The Jaina logician Samantabhadra, while being contemporaneous with Dharmıkirti, must have been his younger contemporary because Samantabhadra has most probably composed his work Aptamimamsa following the scheme of the first chapter of the Pramāņavārtlika of Dharmakirti. 1. Vyomášiva, Akalanka3, Haribhadra and Jayanta®-all of them belong to the post-Dharmakirti period because they have criticised the views of Dharmakirti.
We add here a list of Dharmakirti's works and their commentaries, on the basis of the information given by Sri Rāhulaji in the Appendixes of his edition of the Vādanyāya.
DHARMAKIRTI'S WORKS AND THEIR COMMENTARIES
Main Texts
Commentaries | Commentators
Particulars
1. Pramāņavārttika
1. Auto-comm. 1. (i) tikā
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Published
Dharmakirti ... Karnagomin
Devendramati : S'ákyamati
Tibetan Versio
2. Pañjikā 3. Tikā
14. Bhăşya
(only a part is (=Pramāņavārt | Prajñākaraguptal published in tikālankāra)
J. B.O. R...S.) 1 (i) Bhāşya- Jayānanta
Tib. Version tika (ii) Bhāşya- Yamāri
tika 5. Țikā
Sankarăpanda 16. Țikā
Ravigupta 117, 1
Manorathanandin! Publised 1 Introduction p. 19 to Akalanka-granthatraya. 2 Vyomavati; p: 306, 307, 680 etc. comp. Pramanavartika 1:13, 14, 15;: 3.67,
68, 69. etc. .. . . .. 3 Introduction, p. 25 to Akalankagranthatraya. 4. S'āstravārtā, 4.15-32 Anekāntaja, p. 23. 33 see Pram Inavartika 3,181, 1,219; 5 Nyāyamanjari, Vol. 11, p. 107, 191, etc,
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