Authorship Of Sastitantram

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a thing like this. Besides the epic tradition of the Mokşadharma and the Purānas in which Pancasikha is mentioned as the chief Sāmkhya teacher, we have no other tradition whatever of him. At the same time hardly anything but the names of the old teachers of the classic time were known. To this could be added the fact that the name of a Pancasikha is mentioned in two passages of the Sāņkhyasūtras, the main text of the Sāmkhya Renaissance +7).
2. R. Garbe +) and F. Hall*) before him have called our attention to the fact that the fragments ascribed to Pancasikha in the Tattvayāthārthyadīpanam of Bhāvāgaṇeśa are all to be found in the Tattvasamāsasūtravrttih"). According to Garbe this work was attributed to Pañcaśikha in all the manuscripts known to him . As Bhāvāganeśa himself states in the introduction to his work:
samīsasūtrūnyőlambya vyākhyām pañcaśikhasya ca i
bhāvāganeśaḥ kurute tattvayathārthyadīpanam // 32) . F. Hall and later more decidedly R. Garbe had concluded that the fragments in question have been ascribed by mistake to Pañcaśikha hy Bhāvāganesa, for he had thought that the Tattvasamāsasūtravittih was a work of Pancasikha.
Although Garbe was right in saying that the attribution of these fragments by Bhāvāganesa to Pañcasikha was wrong, yet his argument is not fully convincing. First of all Garbe considered, upon the authority of Vācaspati, the fragments in the Yogabhāşyam as
+7) Sāmkhyasūtras V, 32 ff. and VI, 68.
*) R. Garbe: Sámkhya-Philosophie, 2nd edit. p. 68, footnote 2. The argument of Garbe against the sloka adyas tu mokso etc, holds good also for all the other Pancasik ha-fragments in Bhāvāganesa's work.
"") Sāmkhya-Sāra, a Treatise of Sāmkhya Philosophy by Vijñānabhiksu, ed. hy F. Hall, Calcutta 1862, p. 23 f.
) Tattvasamāsasūtravrttih (Samkhyasamgraha, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series. No. 286, Benares 1920, p. 117–140). This work is identical with the work edited by Ballantyne under the title ,,Kramadipikā: A Lecture on the Samkhya Philo. sophy, embracing the text of the Tattvasamāsa", printed for the use of the Benares College, Mirzarpore 1850.
5) loc. cit.
2) Bhāvāganesa Diksita: Tattvayāthārthyadīpanam (Sāmkhyasamgraha, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series No. 246, Benares 1918), p. 51.