Authorship Of Sastitantram

SR No.: 269347
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G Oberhammer
Publisher: G Oberhammer
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genuine fragments of Pañcasikha. Therefore he was of the opinion that Pañcasikha's work had been written in prose, so that the metrical fragments later ascribed to him were suspicious to him as a matter of course. Today we know that Pancasikha's work cannot be said to be written either in prose or in verse, since we have no fragment which we can with certainty ascribe to him.
Furthermore it is possible to prove that Bhāvāganesa depended on the Tattvasamāsasūtravṛttiḥ to a greater extent than Garbe supposed it to be 53). But now the question arises why Bhāvāganesa did not cite also the much longer quotations from the Vrttiḥ under the name of Pañcaśikha. Why does he connect with this name only passages that are given in the Vșttiḥ itself as quotations? 54) On the basis of Garbe's argument one would expect that the quotations appearing as Pañcaśikha-fragments in the Tattvayāthārthyadīpanam should not be considered by Bhāvāganeśa as Pañcaśikha's, and that those cited anonymously should appear as Pancasikha's. Further it is hard to believe that Bhāvāganesa considered the Tattvasamāsasūtravrttiḥ as a work of Pañcasikha, he (Pancasikha) himself being quoted there 55). Bhāvāganesa could not have failed to observe this fact, for he cites this special passage word for word with the namre of Pancasikha 56). Summing up, we have to say that Garbe's explanation of the appearance of Pancasikha-fragments in the work of Bhāvāganeśa seems to be only partially correct.
3. Even if we accept this explanation there are still three passages of Pañcaśikha-fragments left unexplained:
a) The quotation as given by Vijñānabhikṣu in his Bhāșyam on
58) Bhāvāganesa makes excerpts from the Tattvasamāsasūtravrttih word for word on pp. 61, 63, 71 f., 74, 75, 80, 81 without, however, mentioning the source.
5) The fragment pañcavimšatitattvajña etc. is found in the writings of Paramārtha on Kā. 2 and in those of other authors. The fragment ādau tu mokso etc. is introduced by the words uktam ca in the Vrttih, as is also the case with the fragment prakrtena tu bandhena etc. The fragment tattvāni yo vedayati etc. is cited as well by the Sāmkhyatattvavivecanam (Samkhyasamgraha, p. 16) and Samkhyasūtravivaranam (Samkhyasamgraha, p. 108), though in a slightly modi. fied form.
5) Tattvasamāsasūtravrttih, p. 125. 58) Tattvayāthärthyadīpanam, p. 61.
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