Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

Page 432

P. 172, }). 15 & 18]
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From Suyagada (I, 1, 3, 6) we learn: (some say that) the world with animate and inanimate objects with happinoss and misery was created by is'vara; others say from pahāna (Sk. prochāna) etc. The first of these views can be ascribed to the followers of a theistic school and the second to the Sarkhya system or these viows respectively refer to the theistic and atheistic adherents of the Scīnkhya philosophy.
For comparison of the Greek philosophy with the Sankhya system see Prof. A. B. Keith's Sānkhya System (ch. VI, p. 65 f.).
Whether the Sazikhya school liad at all any ancient sūtras like the other schools is a moot point. The oldest definite text of this system that is mentioned in Nandi (s. 42) etc., anil quoted from but now extinct, is S'astitantra. The short summary of its contents is givon in Ahirbudhnyasanihith (XII, 18-30), a voluminous work in 60,000 s'lokas. The Sankhyakārikā of Īs’varakrsna (c. 150 A, D.) is baseà upon S'astitantra but it has neither incorporated its ākhyāyikūs (parables) nor controversies with other schools.
The oldest com. on Sarithya-kārikā is the Māthcro-vrtti which was translated into Chinese by 450 A. D. There is Gaudapāda's Bhāsya on it and & com. by Sankırācārya named Jayamangala. There is another com. known as Sankhya-tattva-kaumudi by Vācaspatimis'ra (840 A, D). The other important work belonging to this school is Sānichyc-pravacana-bhāşya of Vijñānabhiksu (1650 A, D.). TRD notes Ātreyatantra.' Varsaganya Vindhyaväsin? and Vadamahārnaval are the other writers of this school.
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AST Senarag 11 11 2 The views of Empedocles (whose all the works are in verss) and
those of Anaxagoras bear a great resemblance with the Sänkhya
dootrines. Vide u n (p. 33). 3 Its ninth verse is quoted in Āyāracunni (p. 232), and its v. 22 and
v. 3 are incorporated as v, 70 and v. 71 in Lokatattvanirnaya. 4 See Catalogue of South Indian Sanskrit Mss. Asiatic Society's
monograph (p. 201) noted in parte Taqat Te (Vol. I, p. 98 ). 5 On p. 44a we bave: FECIN 7991: qfantasi, ala, me
सप्ततिनामकं, तत्वकौमुदी, गौडपाद, आत्रेयतनं चेत्यादयः". 6 He is mentioned in Mbh. (XII, 319, 59 ) with several more. 7 See intro. (p. XXXII).
8 One line is quoted from his work in SM (p. 97) ag under:...... . "बुद्धिदर्पणसंक्रान्तमर्थप्रति बिम्बकं द्वितीयदर्पणकल्पे पुंस्यध्यारोहति तदेव भोक्तत्वमस्य न
त्वात्मनो विकारापत्तिरिति".
In AMP edition (p. 123) Vadamahārņava is said to be a work of the Vedantins. In SM (p. 358) Dr. A. B, Dhruva takes this to be a mistake and looks upon it as a work of the Sankhyas and not the nano of & Sankhya writer.