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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Dharmakirti and Uddyotakara as contemporaries, we are unable to explain the mention of Uddyotakara in the Vasavadatta which is referred to in the Harsacarita. We should also remember that Dharmakirti as a scholar was not mentioned by Hiuen Thsang though both were studying at the same time in the same Nalanda monastery. It is therefore probable that Uddyotakara flourished considerably before the time of Dharmakirti, and that the latest date that can be assigned to him is 600 A. D. Nothing is known of the personal history of Uddyotakara, except that he belonged to the Bharadvaja Gotra and was a preceptor of the Pås'upata Saiva sect. Dr. Vidyabhusana is inclined to think that he was a native of Thanes'vara which was connected with Srughna by a broad road, as a reference to this is found in his work.
Bhåmaha.
A. D. 580-640 Several verses of Bhîmaha are quoted by S'ântarakṣita in his Tattvasangraha, though he does not mention his name. His commentator Kamalas'îla supplies the name of Bhâmaha, and the verses can be traced in the Kavyalankára of Bhâmaha. Bhamaha therefore must have flourished before S'ântarakṣita, and the latest date that can be assigned to him is A. D. 700. Bhâmaha can however be placed before Dharmakirti, because in his definition of perception, though Bhåmaha quotes Dinnaga* yet he does not refer
1. इति पाशुपताचार्यश्रीभारद्वाजोइयोतकरकृती न्यायसूत्रवात्तिके पनमोऽध्यायः। Vindbyesvari Prasad in his Nydyavárttikabhumika (Chowkhamba),
p. 134. 2. TYPU: Z togstati
-Nydyavdrtika, p. 113. 3. Compare Tattvasangraha, s'l. 912-914 and Kavydlarikára (printed
as an appendix to Pratáparudrayas'obhuşapa, B. 8. 8. No. LXV)
p. 236; Chap. VI, verses 17, 18, 19. 4. Kdvydlarkara, op. cit. oh. V., 8'6; p. 231
प्रत्यक्ष कल्पनापोडं ततोऽर्यादिति केचन ॥ ६॥ निपातितो शानमनुमानं च केचन ॥ २२ ॥ Compare Nyayapraves'a, op. oit. p. 7. प्रत्यक्षं कल्पनापोढमिति मज्जानम् and अनुमानं लिङ्गाददर्शनम् । लिङ्गम्पुनलिरूपमुक्तम् । 11