Bemerkungen Zu Isvarasenas Lehre Vom Grund

Author(s): Ernst Steinkellner
Publisher: Ernst Steinkellner

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Summary The article sets out with an examination of a few statements in Dharmakirti's PVSV which are attributed to his teacher Isvarasena regarding the purpose of the statement of the concomitance in difference (vaidharmyavacanarthah) and the method by which the absence of the probans in the heterologue is proved.
With the help of complementary material in Arcațas Hetubinduțīkā the theory of Isvarasena could be established and the reasons for its origin found. According to Isvarasena the absence of the probans in the heterologue is proved by a third kind of valid cognition (pramānāntaram), called non-perception (anupalabdhiḥ), which is nothing but mere absence of perception (upalabdhyabhāvamātram). In consequence of this new concept Isvarasena seems to have re-thought the whole theory of the infallibility (avyabhicāraḥ) of the probans and of the conditions the probans has to fulfil to be considered infallible to the probandum. As a result of his concept of non-perception he taught the infallibility of the probans no longer as with Dignāga to be due to the three marks only, but to at least four marks, the fourth being that its object, the probandum, must not have been cancelled by peroeption (abādhitavişayatvam).
This theory, although a part of the logical system only, shows, that the advancement of Buddhist logic after Dignāga was already started by Iśvarasena. The impulse of Távarasena's logical thought seems to have been a careful reflection on Dignāgas teachings. This led to new questions and to new theories which might be thought of as the logic of Isvarasena.
DhPr Pandita Durveka Misra's Dharmottarapradipa. Deciphered and
edited by Pandita Dalsukhbhai Malvania. Patna 1955. Tibetan
Sanskrit Works Series Vol. II. HBT Hetubinduţikā of Bhatta Arcaţa with the Sub-Commentary en
titled Aloka of Durveka Misra. Edited by Pandit Sukhlalji San23 Für einige wertvolle Bemerkungen zu dieser Arbeit bin ich Herrn Professor G. Oberhammer sehr verpflichtet.
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