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CANDRẬNANDA'S. DATE
Ashok Aklujkar, Dept. of Asian Studies
University of British Columbia, VOICA
E, BC
Muni Śrī Jambūvijayajī (1961) has earned the gratitude of the students of Indian philosophy, particularly of the students of the Vaisesika system, by publishing a highly useful and learned edition of Candrananda's commentary (Vrtti) on the Vaiseşika-sūtras. However, for want of evidence, neither he (pp. 12-13 of the Sanskrit introduction) nor Professor Anantalal Thakur (pp. 22-23), who has contributed a scholarly introduction to the volume, has been able to determine Candrânanda's date any more precisely than saying that Candrânanda followed Uddyotakara (fifth or sixth century A. D.). I would, therefore, like to point out that there is evidence to suppose that tenth century A. D. is the lower limit of Candrananda's life-time. The following passages are obviously quoted from his Vrtti by Helārāja (3.6•2-3; Subramania Iyer's edition pp. 210-211), who was In all probability a senior contemporary of Abhinava-gupta (Charudeva Shastri 1930:652-653; Subramania Iyer 1963:xi), the famous philosopher and poetician unanimously assigned to tenth century A. D. by scholars:
(a) dii[sic. dig)-11ngâvišeşād višeşa-lingâbhāvāc calkā dig iti Kāņādāḥ. Cp. dig-lingâvišeşād višeşa-lingâbhāvāc caikā dig ity arthah. (Candrânanda2•2•14 p. 18).
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