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But new evidences which have come to light, completely falsify the statement of Itsing and push back the date of Bhartrhari to the 5th century A. D.3
In the second Kanda of the Vakyapadiya, while describing how the science of grammar, which had been almost extinct, was restored and propagated by the great grammarians, Chandra and Vasurāta, Punyaraja, the commentator of the Vakyapadiya, mentions several times Vasurata as the teacher of Bhartrhari In the Karika 490 of the Vakyapadiya Bhartrhari himself seems to refer to his teacher Vasurata by, ' Guruna' as is evident from the words of Punyaraja prefaced to the verse Again a Jain writer Simhasūrigani, who may be assigned to the beginning of the 6th century A. D., in his unpublished work, Nayacakratika, a commentary on the Nayacakra of Mallavadin the seniors, which is not now extant, mentions, twice in his work, Vasurata the Upadhyaya of Bhartrhari. This confirms the statement of
3 See.-I-tsing and Bhartrhari's Vakyapdiya; By Dr. Kunhan Raja contributed to the Krishnaswamy Iyengar Memorial Volume. ( pp. 285-298 ).
4 See the comment of Punyaraja on Kārika 486 of Kanda II :- न तेनास्मद्गुरोस्तत्रभवतोर्वसुरातादन्यः कश्चिदिमं भाष्यार्णवमवगाहितुमलमित्युक्तं भवति । See
Ibid 1I. 489 :
केनचिच्च ब्रह्मरक्षसानीय चन्द्राचार्य व सुरात गुरुप्रभृतीनां दत्त इति । तैः खलु यथावत् व्याकरणस्य स्वरूपं तत उपलभ्य सततं च शिष्याणां व्याख्याय बहुशाखित्वं नीतो विस्तरं प्रापित इत्यनुश्रूयते ।
5 cf. II. 490b :- प्रणीतो गुरुणास्माकमयमागमसंग्रहः ।
6 cf. : Ibid :—अथ कदाचित् योगतो विचार्य तत्र भगवता वसुरात गुरुणा ममायमागमः संज्ञाय वात्सल्यात् प्रणीत इति स्वरचितस्य ग्रन्थस्य गुरुपूर्वकमभिधातुमाह
7 I:am deeply grateful to sri Jambu Vijayaswami, Talegaon- ( Poona ) for kindly lending a manuscript copy of this important work for my study. 8 Mallavadin, author of Dvadasaranayacakra should be distinguished from another Jaina writer of the same name who is the author of Nyayabindutika-Tippanu.
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9cf. Nayacakratika folio 272a
सोऽभिजल्पोऽभिधेयार्थपरिग्राही बाह्याच्छन्दादन्य इति भर्तृहर्यादिमतम् । वसुरातस्य भर्तृहयुपाध्यायस्य मतं तु.....
cf. Ibid folio 2774- एवं तावत् भर्तृहर्यादिदर्शनमुक्तम् । वसुरातः भर्तृहरे रुपाध्यायः
