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ill fate of his religion in India. He was also grieved by absence of pupils who could fully understand his system and to whom the continuation of his work could have been entrusted. Just as Dignaga had no famous pupil, but his continuator emerged a generation later, so was it that Dharmakirti's real continuator emerged a generation later in the person of Dharmottara. His direct pupil Devendrabuddhi was a devoted and painstaking follower, but his mental gifts were inadequate to the task of fully grasping all the implications of Dignaga's and his own system of transcendental epistemology. Some verses of him in which he gives vent to his deepest feelings betray this pessimistic mentality.
"The second introductory stanza of his great work1 is supposed to have been added later, as an answer to this critics. He there says, "Mankind is mostly addicted to platitudes, they don't go in for finesse. Not enough that they do not care at all for deep sayings, they are filled with hatred and with the filth of envy. Therefore neither do I care to write for their benefit. However, my heart has found satisfaction in this (my work), because through it my love for profound and long meditation over (every) well spoken word has been gratified"
"And in the last but one stanza of the same work he again says, "My work will find no one in this world who would be adequate easily to grasp its deep sayings. It will be absorbed by, and perish in, my own person, just as a river (which is absorbed and lost) in the ocean. Those who are endowed with no inconsiderable force of reason, even they cannot fathom its depth. Those who
9. Pramāṇavārttika.
२. प्राय: प्राकृतसत्तिरप्रतिबलप्रज्ञो जनः केवलं,
नाऽनर्थ्येव सुभाषितैः परिगतो विद्वेष्ट्यपीर्ष्यामलैः । तेनाऽयं न परोपकार इति नश्चिन्ताऽपि चेतस्ततः, सूक्ताभ्यासविवर्धितव्यसनमित्यत्राऽनुबद्धस्पृहम् ॥
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