Yogacara Works Annotated By Vairocanaraksita

SR No.: 269731
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Author: V V Gokhale
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GOKHALE: Yogacara Works annotated by Vairocanaraksita
continuous folios numbered as : 200 upto 213. -presumably an unidentified fragment of "Pramana-vārtika-țikā" and proceed with whatever identification is possible of the so-called: "V-V." Identification of Sanskrit Texts:
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(A) Vimsika-vivṛtiḥ (?): It seems clear, that the first text begins on folio 1-b on Plate ( 1 ) with the initial salutation in the first line, which could be read as Namas Tārāyai". As is to be expected, these photographs show small gaps in the line to mark the end of a text or a section of the text or a verse-number within the text. The first such gap is seen in the first line on folio 2-a (i. e. the topmost folio of our Plate (2)), and the letters preceding this gap could perhaps be read (with a considerable stretch of imagination) as: "Vimśika-tika-vivṛtih //". Maybe, it is this colophon of a text (extending over hardly a single side of a folio) that has misled the photographer in assigning the label: "V-V" to all the texts covering a total of 47 folios on four Plates!
(B) Trimsika-tika-vivṛtiḥ (?): Then on folio 3-a there is a gap in the sixth line, preceded by words that allow themselves to be read as: Trimsik ātika-vivṛtiḥ |--The texts that follow these two doubtful titles can, however, be identified with far greater certainty, as the photographs are also comparatively more legible.
(C) Madhyanta-vibhaga-katipaya-pada-vivṛtih
On fol. 9-b in the second line there is a gap preceded by this colophon, which clearly indicates the end of "Annotations on certain words in the Madhyanta-vibhāga (of Maitreya)", which consists of five paricchedas. We can be sure of this, because preceding this end of the work, we already find four gaps, viz. on folio 4-b in the fifth line, where the first chapter ends and is marked by the figure-numeral; one', then on folio 5-b in the fourth line, where the second chapter ends and is marked by the figure numeral: 'two' then on folio 7-a in the seventh line, where the third chapter ends and is marked by the figurenumeral three', and on folio 8-b in the second line, where the fourth chapter ends and is marked by the figure-numeral : four'. The fifth and the last chapter, of course, ends with the colophon on folio: 9-b in the second line as stated above. Certain terminological identifications can also be easily made in the legible portions of the text.*
(D) Mahāyānottaratantra-tippani: After the gap on fol. 9-b, the next text begins with: Sutram eva āha, anidarśana ityādi' which marks the
4. See: Madhyantavibhagatastra, critically edited by Ramacandra Pandeya (Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi 1971).