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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FOREWORD
5 Some scholars attempted to identify him with Vindhyavasin on Chinese authority but as we have shown previously, this theory is baseless, and should forth with be dismissed without any ceremony as an impossibility."
In our opinion the date of Isvarakļşņa depends on the dates of Vatsyâyana and Dinnaga. Îs'varakļşņa is indeed indebted to Vatsyâyana' who refers to the Vijñânavadins and S'ânyavậdins and therefore must belong to a period after Nagarjuna. Vatsyayana has been placed by eminent scholars in the same period on similar and other grounds. Is'varakrşņa's views are further referred to in the Nyâyapraves'a of Dirnåga a disciple of Vasubandhu who flourshed between A. D. 280-360.
Dinnaga's time may therefore be taken as 345-425. Moreover, several scholars have suspected that Vindhyavasin wilfully altered the Samkhya System, or at any rate held a different view from the rest of orthodox Sảmkhya teachers. Vindhyavasin was attacked and abused mercilessly by Vasubandhu in his Paramarthasaptati, as we learn from Paramartha's account of Vasubandhu.* This is just the time, we think, when Isvarakļşņa's SankhyaKärika was called for, and accordingly he composed a treatise which represented the orthodox views of the S'asțitantra as against the intentional alterations of Vindhyavasin, and which was devoid
1. See supra: art. on Vindhyavåsin. 2. Compare affaires on the Nyâyasůtra No. 5 and Îs'varakršņa's
Sankhyakarika No. 5. 3. Das Gupta: A History of Indian Philosophy, p. 218. We find e. g.
THE ARt Fazzanog in Kumarila's S'lokavdrtika p. 704, whereas Is'varakrepa admits the existence of a subtle body between the death and the next birth-Samkhyakarika 39-41. Further-agence fsfed farzanfaat S'lokavdrtika, p. 393, while Is'varakršņa says-foaMAGHICH Samkhyakarika No. 5. Tattvasangraha, p. 636-Tag Partanen with reference to sound, whereas orthodox Sankhya opinion is that the sound like all other entities possess the three qualities, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas, Takakusu in JRAS. 1905, p. 47; "Finding however that the heretio was dead he (Vasubandhu) wrote a book called Paramdrthasaplati in opposition to the new Shaikhyasûtra of Vindhyayasa, The Siddhântas of the Sankhya were all destroyed."