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32 APROPOS OF LINDTNER'S TWO NEW WORKS
OF DHARMAKİRTI
ERNST STEINKELLNER, Vienna
In two recent publications Christian Lindtner has drawn our attention to "quotations from Dharmakirti occuring in later philosophical works but not to be traced in any of his extant treatises". These quotations which are to be found in the Madhyamakaratnapradipa of Bhavya?, in Santaraksita's Tattvasiddhi.", in Jñānaśrīmitra's Sakārasiddhiśāstra and Kşanabhanrådhyāya and in various Jaina treatises have been attributed by Lindtner to two hitherto ūdknown works of Dharmakirti, a Tattvaniskarşa, on the basis of its mention in the Madhyamakaratnapradipa and the Säkärasiddhisástra, and a Laukikapramānapariksā on the basis of its mention in the Tattvasiddhi.
In view of these extant quotations the question of the authorship of the Madhyamakaratnapradipa is irrelevant : what is important is the very existence of these and other quotations from Dharmakirti which suggests that not all of Dharmakirti's once extant philosophical works were transmitted or even generally preserved in the memory of his tradition. On another occasion I examined the possibility of tracing the reason for the classification of Dharmakirti as a Madhyamika philosopher to one of these quotations, possibly from the Tattvaniskarşa.5 The verses collected by Lindtner so far and tentatively ascribed to the Tattvaniskarşa will probably be augmented by future research. It will be difficult to regard all of them as mere inexact variations of actually extant verses, although we know that some of Dharmakīrti's verses were changed intentionally, e g. for polemical reasons, by later Jaina authors. A study of these fragments will be attempted in the future and it is to be hoped that Lindtner's findings will increase the attention given to similar quotations and references to Dharmakirti that cannot be located in his extant treatises. Here I would like to confine myself to the question of whether the Laukikapramânaparikṣā, one of the two new works newly ascribed by Lindtner to Dharmakirti, can in fact be assumed to by him.
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A fragment and the title of a Laukikapramânapariksa by Dharmakirti was found by Lindtner in the final parts of the Tattvasiddhi. He edited the fragment (yatra...... áfrayena) determining its frame with the words ācārya-Dharmakirtipadair api Laukikapramāṇapari kṣāyāmfti, and says that it is hardly possible to take this passage as a paraphrase as might Lperhaps be suggested by the Tibetan version.9 Foc-the-Tibetan translation shows-as
