Bhatrhari And Dinnaga

Author(s): H R Rangaswamy Iyengar
Publisher: H R Rangaswamy Iyengar

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H. R. RANGASWAMY IYENGAR
pudin the set the Upadhes that
of Punyarāja prefaced to the verse. Again a Jaina writer Simhasūrigani, who may be assigned to the beginning of the 6th century A.D., in his unpublished work, Nayacakratīka,? a commentary on the Nayacakra of Mallavådin the senior 8, which is not now extent, mentions, twice in his work, Vasurāta as the Upadhyāya of Bhartshari. This confirms the statement of Punyarāja and establishes that Vasurāta was a great grammarian of the day under whom Bhartshari studied and that Bhartphari often held views quite different from those of his master.
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According to Paramārtha, Vasurāta was a brahmin and brother-in-law of Baladitya, a pupil of Vasubandhu.10 He was well-versed in grammar. He defeated Vasubandhu, through the intervention of Chandra, another great grammarian. This means that Vasurāta, Chandra, and Vasubadhu should be regarded as contemporaries and Bhartshari, the pupil of Vasurāta, assigned to the 5th century A.D.
Another important piece of evidence, which I have discovered in my study of the Pramāna Samuccaya of Dinnāga, lends support to this view. In the fifth chapter of this work, which is devoted to the exposition of the Apoha theory of Dirnāga, the following two Karikas are found, which may be rendered into Sanskrit l as given below.
Thigs-pa-dan. ni. tshogs. pa-yi, chu. sogs. rnams, la. rjod byed-ni 1 grans dan. tshad. dan. dbyibs. rnams la ltos. pa. med. par. I jug. par. byed 11 deyibs. dan. kha, dog. yan. lag. rnams khyad. par can. la. gan. I jug. pa. de. yi. yantag. la sgra-ni
rah tu. I jug. la. dun asma yin. o cf. : Ibid :- 371 Ciftet faeru T a TAME&UTT HATTHITH : HT वात्सल्यात् प्रणीत इति स्वरचितस्य ग्रन्थस्य गुरुपूर्वकमभिधातुमाह
I am deeply grateful to Sri Jambu Vijayaswami, Talegaon-(Poona) for kindly lending a manuscript copy of this important work for my study.
9 Mallavādin, author of Dvadasāranayacakra should be distinguished from another Jaina writer of the same name who is the author of Nyayabindutika-Tippanü.
. cf. Nayacakratīkā folio 272a
सोऽभिजल्पोऽभिधेयार्थपरिग्राही बाह्याच्छब्दादन्य इति भर्तृहर्यादिमतम्। वसुरातस्य भर्तृहयुपाBUURT HET T...
cf. Ibid folio 277a- gal at affecitHETI TERTET: H OTEUR :....
10 cf. "A study of Paramartha's life of Vasubandhu and the Date of Vasubandhu" by J. Takakusu J. R. A. S. 1905. pp. 33ff. 11 The two Kärikäs may be restored into Sanskrit as :
1) बिन्दौ च समुदाये च वाचक : सलिलादिषु । संख्याप्रमाणसंस्थाननिरपेक्ष : प्रवर्तते। 2) संस्थानवर्णावयवैविशिष्ट यः प्रयुज्यते। शब्दो न तस्यावयवे प्रवृत्तिरुपलभ्यते।
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