Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

SR No.: 008406
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 503
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 11 MB

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LXXXIV
INTRODUCTION
Twenty two kārikās of Sambandhapariksā are embodied and refated in Prameyakamalamartanda (sambadha-sadbhāva: vāda pp. 504-520, 2nd edn.).
Views of Dharmakirti have been refuted in his own way by Kumārila in his Mimāmsåslokavārtika. This is what some scholars believe;" but others hold the opposite view, I being one of them,
Dharmakīrti was conscious of his intellectual performance. But, on seeing the fate of Dinnāga's great work Pramana. samuccaya he was rather pessimistic about the reception of his own work. This is what is reflected in the last verse of Pramonavārtika?. It runs as under:
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ऽग्यदृष्टपरमार्थसारमधिकाभियोगैरपि । __ मतं मम जगत्यलब्धसदृशप्रतिग्राहकं
Tarefa qulad: 99 99 ATE WIE 3198 From the following verse quoted by Śrīdharadāsa in his Saduktikarnāmrtat it seems that Dharmakirti's works were not only not appreciated but openly criticized in his own life-time:
"शैलैबन्धयति स्म वानरहृतैर्वाल्मीकिरम्भोनिधि
व्यासः पार्थशरैस्तथापि न तयोरत्युक्तिरुद्भाव्यते । वागर्थों च तुलाधृताविव तथाप्यस्मत्प्रबन्धानयं।
la URİ AnifaYetini shg 1 : 81" Dharmakirti is known in China as the author or revisor of Vajrasūció, the authorship of which is generally attributed to Asvaghoșa. This work as revised by Dharmakirti was translated into Chinese some time between 973 A, D. and 981 A. D.'
1 See pp. LXXVI-LXXVII of this intro. 2 It contains quotations from some earlier works. The verses
pa T r eto. of Nagarjuna's Ratnávali (ed. by G. Tucoi in JRAS, 1934, April) are fouud in Pramānavārtika (II, v. 219 etc.). For other details about this work which is a master-piece amongst all his works on logic, see Notes on p. 105, 1, 21 and this intro.
(p. LXXXV). $ This verse is quoted in Vivek (p. 363 ) with Ferty for Trier 4 See p. 327, Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot, Lahore. 5 Bhavabhūti has also complained about the attitude of the people
towards his work in his Mälatīmadhava (I, Y. 8). 6 This is the well-known work of the Mahāy&na school. 7 See A Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism (p. 185) by G. K.
Nariman.