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INTRODUCTION
Importance of the TPS.
As far as our knowledge goes the Tattvopaplavasimha is a unique work of its kind. The school of Chārvaka otherwise known as the Lokāyata Darsana was long known to the students of Indian Philosophy as a Pūrvapaksa in almost all the systems, and also from such works as the Saddarsanasamuccaya of Haribhadra Sūri (about 700-770 A. D.) and the Saryadarsana Sangraha of Madhavacharya (about 14th century A. D.) No work, however, belonging to the Lokāyata school itself was known. The TPS fills at Icast partially that gap in our knowledge 1. As we sliall see later on, the TPS goes a step further and carries to its logical end the sceptical tendency of the Chārvāka school as it is known to us from this work itself and other sources and ends in tattvopaplava' or 'upsetting of all principles.' Description of the As.
This palm-leaf ms, which as noted in the Preface, belongs to the Sanghavinā pādāno Bhandar, is noticed in A Descriptive Catalogue of MSS in the Jaina Bhandārs at Pattan Vol. I. p. 165. G.O.S. No. LXXVI. published in 1937. It consists of 176 leaves. Its length is 14'' and breadth 11". A few lines in the beginning and a few in the body of the work are illegible.
It becomes clear from the colophon that the ms was copied in Samvat 1349 Marg. Vadi 11 Sanau (6th December 1292 A.D.) at Dholkā by Maham Narapala. At the time Sārangadeva (A.D. 1274-95) of the House of the Vaghelas was reigning, Dholkā had been a second capital of Gujarat for more than half a century from the time of Viradhavala (A. D. 1233-38) and it appears from the colophons of a great number of mss that it had developed into a centre of learning also.
The ms begins— .........at ara 97.............. Falaatta te faqat #41......... ita acro al fufci fri atqz (act FÅT:
HF...............5 7 qersta figura etc.
1 See further pp, xi-xii,
