Bhatrhari And Dinnaga

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

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BHATRHARI AND DINNAGA 149 They are only Tibetan renderings of the two Karikas occuring in the second Kanda of the Vakyapadiya of Bhartphari.12 This means that either Dinnaga took the Karikas from Bhartshari's work or both Dinnaga and Bhartphari took them from quite a different work. But there is no evidence to support the latter alternative. We learn from Jinendra-Buddhi, author of Visalamalatika on 13 the Pramana Samuccayavitti of Dinnaga, that Dinnaga is here referring to the views of Bhartshari. This evidently supports the former alternative that Dinnaga is quoting from Bhartphari. Now if Dinnaga, a famous Buddhist logician of the 5th century A.D. quotes from the Vakyapadiya, how can we assign Bhartphari to the 7th century A.D.? We have only to conclude that Bhartphari, the author of the Vakyapadiya lived in the 5th century A.D. and that the statement of Itsing that Bhartshari died some forty years before the date of his record is incorrect. 13 cf. Karikas. II. 160 and 157.-Benares. Edition. pp. 144-145. 13 cf. Visalamalatika : Mdo. re folio 33lb. line 6ff : Kha. cig. tu gtso. bor. cha tshas rnams la. 'jug. te 1 bha. rite. ha. ris. yis smras. pa l cha. sogs. rnams la zes pai sogs pai sgras. sa la. sogs pa. yois su gzun io. 1 केचित प्रधानमंशेषु वर्ततेभितहरिणा उक्त सलिलादिष्विति. आदिशब्देन पृथिव्यादीनां परिग्रहः।