Indian Antiquary Vol 44

SR No.: 032536
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 424
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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APRIL, 1916 )
VATNYAYANA, AUTHOR OF THE NYAYABHASYA
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Vatsyayana in explaining this sútra remarks as follows -
Yatha prada pa-prakaiah pradipántara-prakajam antarena g!hyte, tatha pramanioni pramdndntaram antarena grhyantaiti.
(Nyayabhasya 2-1-19.)
“Just as the lumination of a lamp is apprehended without the lumination of another lamp, so an evidence of right knowledge is accepted without a further evidence." 4. Maya-gandharva-nagara-
mga-trnika- 4. Yutha maya yathe scapro gandharvavad-ud.
nagaram yathi Tathotpadaslathi athanam tatha (Nyayas itra 4-2-32).
bhanga udahrtam.
(Madhyamika-sútra, Chap. VII). “ The concept of things is like a jugglery, "The origination, continuance and cessathe city of the celestial quiristers or a tion of a thing are said to be like a jugglery, mirage."
a dream or the city of the celestial quiris
ters." 6. Vartamanabhavah patatah patita patita- 5. Gatam na gamyate tavat vya-kellopapattek.
Ayalam naiva gamyate (Nydyasútra 2-1-37).
Galâgatavinirmuktan Gamyamanam na gamyate. Il
(Madhyamika-sútra, Chap. II). « The present time is non-existent because " We are not passing a path which has the falling down of an object relates to the already been passed, nor are we passing time during which the object fell down and that which is yet to be passed; the existence to the time during which it will fall down." of a path, which has neither been passed
nor is yet to be passerl, is beyond compre
hension." (Vatayâyana commenting on this sútra says that the path traversed is the portion which has already been passed over and the time related to it is the past time; the path to be traversed is the one which has not yet been passed over and the time related thereto is the future time-there is no third path which is being traversed nor is there any time which is called vartam ana the present).
v tsyayana was posterior to the author of the Lanka vata ra-satra There are passages in the Ny yasútra which were evidently interpolated into it froin the Lankdvalira-sútra. Våtsyâyana, who explains them in his Nydyabha ya, must have been posterior to the author of the Lankavatára-sútra from which they were taken. Some of the passages are cited blow:
1. Buddhya vivecanat tu bhavanan yathá- 1. Buldhya rivicyamananim svabhavo naImyanupalabdhih.
adharyate. (Nydya-sútra 4-2-26).
(Laika vatra-sútra, Chap. II and Chap. X)