________________ Summary There is evidence to show the identity of the authorship of the. Dipa and its Vritti. Nevertheless, it is only in the Vtitti that we meet severe criticism directed against the Kosakara. It will be proved in a subsquent chapter that this commentary is written solely for presenting the orthodox Vaibhashika viewpoint, encountering the criticisms levelled against it by the Kosakara in his Bhashya. We may here note that although criticising it, the VIitti, in most parts, is an imitation of the Bhashya and differs only in those places where it either deals with new topics or deals in detail with those which are given in brief in the Bhashya. We have indicated in the footnotes to the Text, the passages common to the Bhashya. There are about fifty such large passages,--(the smaller ones are not noted)--which are more or less identical with the Bhashya. Of these about twelve passages are quotations from other works (mostly Satras, the Prajnapti and the Jnanaprasthana) comnon to both. Four passages deal with the chatushkotikas", which also appear to be borrowed by both from some common Abhidharma source. Two passages are mentioned as quotations from the Bhashya itself as providing the purvapaksha. The remaining 32 passages are directly borrowed from the Bhashya without any acknowledgement. Of these a large number are identical and a few substantially agree with the Bhashya. The entire Vtitti on the karikas 17 a, 185, 204cd, 209, 261 and 350 of Dipa may specially be noted as it is identical with its corresponding Bhashya. who translated it from the Chinese and Tibetan translations. Fortunately, the original Sanskrit MS, of this work was also discovered by Pandit Rahula in Tibet in 1937. This has now been edited by Professor Prahlad Pradhan and is being printed in the Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series, Patna. I am deeply grateful to Professor Pradhan for giving me access to his press-copy of this MS. I am also indebted to Professor A. S. Altekar, the General Editor of the Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series, for his kind permission to quote and print passages from the above work in my edition of the Dipa. 1 See Adv. pp. 452-454. See Adv. pp. 16, 27, 90, 102. 8 See Adv. pp. 98, 168.
