Book Title: Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2
Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
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P. 5, 1:22] NOTES
285 (a) The Bauddhas hold: There are twelve āyatanasi viz. five
sense-organs, and their five objects, mind and dharma.. : (e) There are only two pramanasa viz. pratyaked and anumāras • (inference).
After the nirvāns of Buddha, a dispute arose in his church, and in 400 B. C. a council of monks met at Vais'áli. This led to the division of the Mahasanghikae into nine groups known as under:
(1) Múlamahásanghika, (2) Ekavyavahărika, (3) Lokottaravādin, (4) Kukullika, (5) Babus'rutiya, (6) Prajñaptivādin, (7) Caittika, (8) Aparas'ails and (9) Uttazas’aila.
This council also caused a split amongst the Therarādins who got divided into the following eleven groups:
(1) Haimavata, (2) Sarvāstivādin, (3) Dharmaguptika, (4) Mahis'āsaka, (5) Kās'yapiya, (6) Sautrāntika, (7) Vātsīputriya, (8) Dharmottariya, (9) Bhadrayānīya, (10) Sammitīya and (11) Channāgarikas.
Vasumitra (100 A. D.) has said that all these twenty groups belong. to the Hinayāna sect; but, in course of time, the Mahāsanghika and Theravāda schools came to be known as 'Hinayāna' and Mahāyāna." The two well-known branches of Hinayāna are Vaibhāşika and Sautrántika whereas those of Mehāyāna are Yogācāra and Madhyamika. These are the four well-known sect88 of Buddhism about which some details will be found in the “Notes" to p. 80, 1. 10. • Gandhahastin Siddhasena Gani in his com. (pt. II, p. 123) on TS
1 The twelve āyatanas are treated in Systems of Buddhist Thought (p. 231 ). The word 'ayatana' is there explained as anderi
" Ayatana ordinarily means a place', & resting place; but in Buddhist philosophy it is used, in the technical sense, for the ground wherein the mental properties develop". For an exposition of various pramāņas see my "Notes" (pp. 110-158) on NK (III, 1-15), and for various definitions of 'pramāna see Vātsyāyana's bhäsya on Nyayasūtra (I, 1, 1). Uddygtakara's Nyāyavārtika, Jayanta's Nyāyamañjari (p. 12) and Udayana's
Nyāyavārtikatātparyaparisuddhi. 3 See pp. 385-386 of SM edited by Sastri Jagadiśecandr&.
Ibid., p. 388. 5 For some details about the founders of these four seots, geographical
places of their followers and a list of their works seo akalat a TTCTT an article by Askoka Harsha published in Buddi-prakāśa (Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 54-46) and based on Satischandra Vidyabhusana's
article published in "Mahäbodhi". 6. On p. 254 of part I there is mention of Aryasammitiya, Sautrántila
and Yogłokra...
