Tibetan Citations Of Bhartaharis Verses And Problem Of His Date

SR No.: 269393
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Author: Hajime Nakamura
Publisher: Hajime Nakamura
Total Pages: 16
Language: English
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TIBETAN CITATIONS OF BHARTRHARI'S VERSES AND THE PROBLEM OF HIS DATE.
by
Hajime NAKAMURA
University of Tokyo
. About twenty years ago, the illustrious scholar to whom we are dedicating
this commemoration volume pointed out the fact that some verses of a Vedāntin called Bhadrahari(?) is mentioned in the Tibetan version of some philosophical works of later Mahāyāna Buddhism. The author of the present article wants to elaborate on the problem, gathering Tibetan verses ascribed to him, and collating some of them with Sanskrit originals which have been identified by the author.
In the first place the following verse is cited in the Tibetan version of the Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra-țīkā, a commentary by No-bo-ñid med-pa (=Asva'bhāva) upon the Mahāyānasūträlamkāra :
(fr. 1.) Bha dri ha ri(s) ji skad du / | nam mkhah sa lun ñi ma dan ||
rgya mtsho glin dan phyogs rnams ni / nan gi ses pahi no bo yi// cha las phyi rol lta bur hhug /
ces bśad pa lta bu yin no // ḥdzin pahi don las bzun baḥi don tha mi dad mthon baḥo // shes bya ba ni gzun ba dan ḥdzin paủi rnam par ses pa kho nar zad kyi rnam par ses pa la ma rtogs pa byis pas kun brtags pa mig la sogs pa ḥdsin paḥi don ni yod pa ma yin no shes bya bar te / dehi phyir don du snan ba thams cad sems kho na yin par ltahi / don sems las gshan par ni mi blta ho // dehi tshe ni hdihi gzun ba la rnam par gyen pa spans la ḥdzin pahi rnam par rtog pa ḥbaḥ shig lus te/de ni bzod paḥi gnas skabs yin no! “As was declared by Bhadrahari...
'Ether, earth, wind, the sun, the sea, continents and directions ... they exist like external things, having been manifested from the in
nermost, proper portions of the interior intelligence (=adhyātmajñāna).”
1 Prof. Susumu Yamaguchi, "
19 " VIII, Kyoto 1114 (1936), pp. 152-153. 2 His comment upon Dharmaparyești 5. Bstan-hgyur of the Peking edition, XLV, 90 a, 8-b, 1.