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ALAMBANAPARĪKṢĀ
D
CLASSIFICATION OF PHENOMENA (DHARMAS) ACCORDING TO THE SAUTRĀNTIKAS
[It is already known that the Sautrantikas as against the Vaibhāṣikas, reduced the number of Dharmas to forty-three. But how they have worked it out actually is not as yet known either from the Sanskrit, Chinese or Tibetan source. However, some hints as to the method of their classification of things are found in the Sivajñanasidhiyar, (second part, parapakṣa) and commentary thereon. The Sidhiyar, a polemical treatise in Tamil on S'aiva philosophy was composed by Aruṇandi Sivacāryar, a great S'aivait scholar of South India, who flourished in 1275-1325 A.D. The relevant portion of the section, Sautrantikamata1 of the Sidhiyar is given below with the commentary which supplements the text with a very valuable necessary information on the subject.]
Text: There are only two pramāņas, pratyakṣa 2 and anumana. The momentary knowledge and the knowable are their objects. These objects get divided
'This Section is studied and translated in full by the present writer and published in the Journal of the Sri Venkatesvara Oriental Institute, Tirupati, Vol. I, part 2, pp. 176-191.
2
The commentator, Jñanaprakās'ar in explainning pratyakṣa, quotes Dharmakirti: It is divided into four : idriyapratyakṣa mānasapr. yogapr. and svasamvedanapr. See Nyāyabindu, I. 4-11.
