Tibetan Citations Of Bhartaharis Verses And Problem Of His Date

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Author: Hajime Nakamura
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tate instead of vivartataḥ.) 14 Most strikingly, in the commentary (vrtti) by BhattaNārāyanakantha upon the Mrgendrăgama, a very important, fundamental scripture of the Saivas, those verses are ascribed to Bhartphari, who is characterized as a vivartavādin, as follows : 15
tathā cāha tatrabhavan BhartȚhariḥ...
yathā visuddham ākāśam timiropapluto janaḥ / samkirņam iva mātrābhis citrābhir abhimanyate // tathedam amstam brahma nirvikāram avidyaya /
kaluşatvam ivāpannam bhedarūpe pravartate // evam cābhinnam evedam param brahma paramātmalakṣaṇam, manasām hi samsāradharmaih sukhaduhkhadibhir yogah/paramātmā tu sūrya ivāmbhaḥpratibimbabhedair upādhibhir abhinno'pi bhinna iva pratibhāti/
The Sanskrit text by Nārāyaṇakantha seems to be the least affected form of the original verse.16 These verses seem to be of the same purport as the Mān. dükya-kärikā III, 8.
yathā bhavati bālānām gaganam malinam malaih/
tathā bhavaty abuddhānām ātmāpi malino malaiḥ // “As the sky appears to be soiled with dirt to the ignorat, so appears Ātman, too, with impurities, to those who are not enlightened”.!? The same view was shared by Sankara also.18 What is most striking from the viewpoint of the history of ideas is that verses very similar to the foregoing are given by Dignāga, the, Buddhist philosopher, in vv. 31.-32 of his Trikālaparikṣā as follows : 19
ji ltar nam mkhah rnam dag la/ rab rib kyis ni bslad pahi mi/ skra śad kyis ni kun gan ltar / sna tshogs su ni mñon par rtogs//31 de Itar hdir yan rnam ses ni /
14 The text is not now available to the author, who has read it in E. Frauwallner's Dignāga und anderes ” (Festschrift Winternitz, S. 237).
15 Härāņacandra Šāstri : Sabdabrahmavādah. (G. Thă Commemoration Volume, p. 93.)
16 As for understanding the meaning of the verse, Anandajñāna's tikā upon the Brhad. Up. Värttika is highly valuable.
17 The Agamaśāstra of Gaudapāda, edited, translated and annotated by Vidhushekhara Bhattacharyya, University of Calcutta, 1943, p. 53.
18 S. ad Brhad. Up. p. 152, 1. 24 ... na hi bālais talamalinatādibhir vyomni vikalpyamāne talamalinatādivisistam eva paramārthato vyoma bhavati (s. ad BS. I, 2, 8. vol. I, p. 184, 11. 5-7). vyomniva talamalādi parikalpitam (ś. ad BS. I, 3, 19. vol. I, p. 279, 1. 7.). ākāśe bālās talamalinatādy adhyasyanti (ś. ad BS. I, I, 1, vol. I, p. 11. AnSS). Upadeśasāhasri, II, 18, 22.
19 The author has cited the verse from the above-mentioned Frauwallner's work.