Tattvasangraha 01

SR No.: 010566
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Embar Krishnamacharya
Publisher: Central Library
Publication Year: 1926
Total Pages: 832
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 57 MB

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TOREWORD
of Kanişka ; it was after Nagarjuna they made headway.' It is also doubtful whether the distinction between Mahayana and Hinayána as drawn in the Prajnaparamita' met with & general acceptance before the time of Asanga, in whose Mahayanasıtrdlankára elaborate distinction is drawn between Mahayana and Hinayana. S'abarasvimin was in all probability later than Nagarjuna and belonged to a period ranging from 250-300 A. D., and we shall not be altogether mistaken if we make Sabara a contemporary of Vätsyâyana.
Vindhyavâsin.
250-320 A, D. A Sånkhya author by name Vindhyavasin is mentioned in the Tattvasangraha. He seems to be identical with the same teacher who was reputed to be one of the Samkhya authoritites when Vasubandhu was living. In Paramartha's Life of Vasubandhu it is recorded that Vindbyavasin was successful in a dispute with Buddhamitra a teacher of Vasubandhu, and got a reward of three lacs of gold from king Vikramaditya of Ayodhya. After this triumph he returned to the Vindhya mountains and died there. Vasubandu eventually heard of the shame of his teacher and searched for the rival philosopher in the Vindhya mountains. Finding however that the heretic was dead he composed a book called the Paramarthasaptati in opposition to the new Samkhyasastra of Vindhyavasin". The works of Vindhyavasin and Vasubandhu are lost and are not to be found even in Chinese translations. Paramartha is at present our earliest authority on Vusubandhu and his words about the intellectual fight between these two celebrities demand respect and authority, Attempts have been made to identify Vindhyavåsin
1. B. Bhattacharyya ; Indian Buddhist Iconography. intro. p. I. 2. Agtasdhasrika Prajñápdramita, ch.. XI: also Haraprasad Shastri's
tras ation of it in JBTS. part II. pp. 7. ff. 3. Tattvasangraha, p. 22. 4. Takakusu: A study of Paramartha's Life of Pasubandhu in JRAS. 1905,
p. 47. 5. For the opinions !ield by Vindhyavåsin seo infra: art. on Îs'varakršna.