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THE YUKTIDĪNIKĀ ON THE SAMBAYAKĀBIKĀ
Corrections and Emendations in the Text.'
BY
DR. V. RAGHAVAN The Yuktidīpikā, a commentary on the Samkhya Kärikäs of Iśvarakrsņa, had long remained in obscurity in a manuscript in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, a Birch-bark original from Kashmir purchased by Buhler, until Mr. Pulinabehari Chakravartti published it in 1938 in the Calcutta Sanskrit Series. The publication revealed a valuable work of an obviously significant antiquity and demonstrated also the fact that the age of discoveries of rare texts had not come to an end. Despite the fact that the work has been in print for a considerable time now, it is yet somewhat unfortunately obscure, for very few have written on it; I know of only four scholars who have so far written on it, the late Prof. S. S. Suryanarayana Sastri who took note of the work and its striking interpretations in the third edition of the Sāṁkhya Kārikās with Translation, Notes and Introduction, brought out by him for the Madras University, a Hindi .writer, Prof. Frauwallner of Vienna in Vol.I of his History of Indian Philosophy in German and Prof. Satkari Mookerji himself who has been associated with the publication of this work from Calcutta. The editor himself promised to
All - India Oriental Conference,
.. 1. Paper read at the 18th Annamalai University, 1955.
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