Yogacara Works Annotated By Vairocanaraksita

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beginning of a commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāga-MahāyānottaratantraŠāstra.5 The subsequent gaps on foll. 10-6, 11-b etc. confirm this fact satisfactorily. This text extends from fol. 9-5 line 2 to fol. 17-a line 5, where it ends with : Mahāyānottara-tantrațippani | krtih Pandita-Vairocanarakṣitapādānām //.
(E) Sūtrālamkāraḥ : Beginning from fol. 17-a, 1.5, we have a similar commentary on the text of the Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra of MaitreyaAsamga, which extends upto fol. 47-a, 1.2, with gaps to mark the serial number of chapter (adhikāra ) of the original work. The colophon reads : “ Sūtrālamkāraḥ samāptaḥ // o // Krtiḥ Pandita-vairocanarak șitapādānām //
(F) Dharmadharmatā-vibhāl ga): Hereafter we meet with a text, beginning on fol. 47-a, I. 2 and ending apparently on fol. 47.5 with the incomplete colophon: “ Dharmadharmatā-vibhāo”, which could be restored by supplementing some such words as : ogakatipayapada-vivrtih // after the fashion of (C) above, presumably composed also by Pandita-Vairocanarakṣita.
Thus, the four Plates, examined above, going under the misleading general title of : “ Vimsikā-vivrti (= V-V), contain sub-commentaries in the form of annotations on the following works, all of which seem to be the compositions of Pandita-Vairocanarakṣita, although only two of these bear the name of this author in their respective colophons :
(A) (Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi) Vimsatikā (?) (B) »
Trimśikā »
(?)
5. Cf. Ratnagotravibhaga-Mahayanottaralantrasāstra, edited by E. H. Johnston (Patna, 1950), p. 2, line 5. Also comp. fol. 10-6, 11. 6-7 :'tatra yaduktam ityādinā sūtramaha' etc. with Johnston's p. 9, 11. 8-9. This commentary enumerates and explains on foll. 10-b, l. 7, to 11, 6, 1-7 the nine illustrations of the Buddha's Acts, viz. of i) Sakrapratibimba, ii) Dharmadundubhi, iii) Megha, iv) Mahābrahmā, v) Sūrya, vi) Cintāmaņi, vii ) Pratiśrutkā, viii) Pythvi and ix ) Akasa (Cf. J. Takasaki, a study of the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra ), SOR, Rome. 1966, pp. 126-128. By the way, a fairly large portion of the photographs, containing this commentary, are legible, and we wou.d leave it to be worked out by scholars like Prof. J. Takasaki, who has deciphered recently a very difficult ms. in the Sāradă script of a short versified summary of the present work by Sajjanapāda. The photos of this small treatise : Mahayanottaratantrafastropadeśa were provided by Prof. G. Tucci. The results of Prof. Takasaki's decipherment were published by him in the Journal of Indian and Buddhist Stndies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu ) Vol. XXIII. No. 2 (March 1975), pp. 1058-1065.
6. See Mahayanasūtralamkära, ed. by Sylvain Lévi ( Paris, 1907). It may be noted, that the ending figure-numeral for Chapter 20 (on fol. 45 a, 1. 2) is followed by “ Evamgunayuktanam bodhisattvanan niscayarthan linganat / parigrahart ham parigrahanimittam muktahastatadanam kypaya sattvaparigrahaḥ svikarah / priyakhyanam...." etc. which refers to Lévi's text beginning with XX-XXI (pp.175-176 )-- The numbering of Lévi's chapters needs further investigation.