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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INTRODUCTION
Dhammapala
LXXXV
He is referred to by Haribhadra in his com. (Vol. II, p. 36) on AJP. Here it is stated that he and Dharmakirti believe that the power of rūpa etc. is two-fold.
Dharmapala was not the head (abbot) of Nālandā university when Hieun Thsang visited it in 635 A. D.; for, the then head was Silabhadra who was a disciple of Dharmapāla. It was this Śilabhadra under whom Hieun Thsang studied. So Dharmapala seems to be alive from 600 A. D. to 635 A. D. He is the author of Alambanapratyayadhyānasāstravyākhyā, Vidyāmātrasiddhiṣāstravyākhyā and S'atasāstravyākhyā. So says Candrasekhara in his Hindi intro. (p. 10) to Nyāyabindu and its com.
Nanjio's Catalogue attributes the authorship of the following four works to Dharmapala *
(1) Alambanaparikṣāvyākhyā No. 1174, (2) Vidyāmātrasiddhi No. 1197, (3) Vidyāmātrasiddhisästra No. 1210 and (4) Satasastravaipulyaryākhyā No. 1198.
Some believe that he is an author of Sabdavidyāsaṁyuktasastra in 25,000 slokas and a com. on Nyāyadvāratarkasāstra (= Nyāyamukha). Of these the first is equated by some with the com. on Bhatṛhari's treatise called peina mentioned by I-tsing (671 A. D.-695 A. D.).
The com.1 of Dharmapala on Alambanaparikșă in the Chinese version of I-tsing has been rendered both in Samskṛta and English in "The Adyar Library Series" No. 32. This com. is almost complete; it abruptly breaks off in the seventh verse out of eight. In this com. there are two quotations which agree in spirit with the verses of Pramāņavārtika (vide pp. 61 & 67).
1 There is another com. by Vinitadeva (o. 700 A, D.) available in Tibetan version. Copious extracts from this com. along with the French translation by Susumu Yamaguchi in collaboration with H. Meyer have been published in the Journal Asiatique (Vol. CCXIV, No. I) in 1929 A, D.
2 He should not be confounded with his namesake of the Theravada school, who is said to be a resident of the Badaritittha (vide the colophon of Visuddhimaggaṭīkā).