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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BRONKHORST : The Vaiseșika Vākya and Bhāşya -
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vartate tatha amśu su tathā pakşmatitirenuparamănuşu tatha turya
dişv api, pämsvādişv api ca, kāraṇakāraṇatvād aņuvat/
Summing up our findings of this section, it can be stated that the seventh Ara of the Dvādaśāra Nayacakra appears to contain a long discussion with a Vaišeşika text called Kațandi and with its commentary, the Țika by Prasastapāda. No other Vaišeşika works would seem to be referred to. The Kațandi, which had a single author whose name is not mentioned, was written in the Värttika-stýle that characterizes a number of works of around the middle of the first millennium C. E., a style in which vākyas and their explanations (bhäşyas ) play a predominant role. Mallavādin, in his discussion with the Kațandi and its commentary, quotes frequently from these two texts. Simhasūri's comments, as well as the recognizable style of the Kațandi, allow us to identify a number of its quoted passages. The fact that Mallavādin left, at least in some cases, the Vārttika-style unchanged, suggests that he, if he changed his quotations at all, did so to a but limited extent.
Before we turn to the next section, which will study the possible link between the katandi and the Padārthadharmasangraha, it will be useful to list here the vākya referred to by Vyomasiva in his Vyomavati (p. 351. 27-28 ), to which attention was drawn by H. Isaacson (1990 : 85): vk 9 pūrvāparādipratyayānāṁ kärane digākhyā
2. We have seen that Prasastapāda wrote a Țikā on the Kațandi. This Tikā, like the work on which it commented, is now lost. Prasastapāda's Padārthadharmasangraha, on the other hand, has survived, and is indeed considered to contain the classical exposition of the Vaise șika system. It seems no more than reasonable to believe that the Padārthadharmasangraha was profoundly influenced by the Kaçandi. The question to be posed in this section is whether traces of this influence can actually be found in the text.
Note first that the seventh Ara of the Dvādaśāra Nayacakra contains at least one quotation which corresponds almost word for word to a passage of the Padārth-dharmasangraha.! Our criteria do not permit us to determine whether this quotation originally belonged to the katandi or to the Tikā, but either way our expectation is strengthened that the Padārthadharmasangraha may owe a great deal to the now lost Katandi.
In the case of the Padārthadharmasangraha our main criterion for identifying a passage as a quotation from the Katandi, is the Värttika-style.
12 See Jambuvijaya's edition of the Dvādaśara Nayacakra p. 524 n. 3,
20 Annals BORI ( A.M.