Vaisesika Vakya And Bhasya

SR No.: 269577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst
Total Pages: 25
Language: English
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Is it conceivable that all non-authentic sütras in the surviving versions of the Vaiśesika Sutra derive from the Kațandi? Or do we have to assume also other sources of inauthentic sūtras? It is difficult to answer this question, because the katandi is almost completely unknown to us. Nor do we know the original contexts of inauthentic sūtras, even if we suppose that we are at all able to recognize them as such.
We do, however, know some things about the Katandi. We have seen, for example, that its logic stood most probably under the influence of a Buddhist logician, most probably Vasubandhu, but not yet under that of Dignāga's Pramanasamuccaya. This helped us in determining the approximate date of the Kațandi. It will now help us to show that at least some sūtras were added to the text of the Vaiścsika Sutra before the Kagandi. 35
VS 2.1. 15-16 and 3. 2. 6-7 distinguish two kinds of inference: that based on something seen (drsta ), and that based on something seen in general (sāmānyato drsta ). This cannot but be the same distinction as that between visesato drsta and sāmänyato drsta, current in Sāmkhya, and introduced by the Samkhya teacher Vindhyavāsin.: Vindhyavasin lived around 400 C. E. (Bronkhorst, 1985: 171 ). These sūtras, therefore, appear to have been inserted after that date, but before the katandi which represents the next stage in the development of logic within the Vaiseșika school.
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35 What follows is essentially based on Frauwallner, 1955: 75 (212) f., esp. 79 (216) n. 30. JU According to Kumarila's Slokavårttika 8 (Anumanapariccheda ), v. 143.