Bhattoji Diksita On Sphota

Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst

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BHATTOJI DĪKSITA ON SPHOTA
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Haraprasad Shastri, 1912: 11; EIP V p. 241 s.v. Bhattoji Dīkṣita; Salomon, 1985: xix, xxvi.
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Gode, 1940: 66 ff.; Manudeva Bhattacharya's introduction to his edition of Kaunda Bhatta's Brhadvaiyäkaraṇabhusana p. 5; Upadhyaya, 1994: 61. 43 Cf. the following passage from Jagannatha's Praudhamanoramakucamardana (as cited in Belvalkar, 1915: 39 n. 1): iha kecit = Bhattojidikṣitäh] nikhilavidvanmukuṭamayūkhamālālālitacaraṇānām... Sesavamsavatamsānām Sri-Krsnapanditānām prasādād āsāditaśabdānusāsanās teṣu ca parameśvarapadam prayāteṣu kalikālavasamvadībhavantah Prakriyaprakasam svayamnirmitāyām manoramāyām akulyakārṣuh | să ca prakriyaprakāśakṛtām pautrair asmadgurupanditaviresvarānām tanayair düsitäpi svamatipariksärthe punar asmäbhir niriksyate /. Mimämsaka, sam. 2030: I: 486 n. 1 cites the same passage in a rather different form. See also Mīmāmsaka, sam. 2030: I: 541; Kane, HistDh 1,2 p. 967 n. 1508; p. 48-49 of the introduction to the edition of Jagannatha's Rasagangadhara mentioned in the bibliography; p. (15) of Sitaram Shastri's introduction to his edition of the Praudha Manorama; Hueckstedt, 2002: 51-52 n. 18. Extracts from Jagannatha's text (including this passage) can be found at the end of the edition of the Praudha Manorama by Pt. Sadashiva Sharma Shastri. This passage is found on p. 1-2 of Madhusudana's edition. For an English translation, see Joshi, 1980: 107. This statement shows that Bhattoji was the pupil of Sesa Kṛṣṇa, not of the latter's son Śeṣa Vīreśvara, as maintained by Ranganathasvami Aryavaraguru (1912), Altekar (1937: 40) and Das (1990: 326 n. 14). For another critical passage from the same work, see Sitaram Shastri's introduction to his edition of the Praudha Manoramā, p. (13) n. 2.
44 The introduction (Prästāvikam) by Bhagiratha Prasada Tripathī to the edition Rāmacandra's Prakriyakaumudi with Seşa Kṛṣṇa's Prakāśa (see bibliography; p. (i) f.) shows that Sesa Krsna's prac is indeed Vitthala the author of the Prasada. See further below.
45 A comparison of the following passages illustrates the contrasting ways in which Bhattoji's Praudha Manorama and Seṣa Kṛṣṇa's Prakāśa use this term: (i) Bhattoji Dīkṣita, Praudha Manorama I p. 204: yat tu praca 'tat-siva ity atra jastve kṛte, khari ca' ity uktam tan na ... | yat tu tatpautrenoktam tado ya 'vasane iti cartve kṛte, paścāc chiva ity anena sambandhe, jhalam jaso 'nte iti jaśtve, khari ca iti cartvam' iti | tad atisthaviyah /. (ii) Rämacandra, Prakriyākaumudi (ed. Miśra I p. 145; ed. Trivedi I p. 90): tad siva ity atra jaśtve kṛte - khari ca. (iii) Seṣa Krsna, Prakāśa I p. 146: atra pracoktam 'tado va'vasane iti cartve kṛte paścac chiva ity anena sambandhe jhalam jaso 'nte iti jastve tad siva iti sthite khari ca iti cartvam' iti /. (iv) Vitthala, Prasada I p. 90: tado vāvasāne iti cartve kṛte paścat siva ity anena sambandhe jastvam jhalam jasonte iti tataś ca tad siva iti sthite khari ceti anena cartve...
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The following are examples: (i) Bhattoji Dīkṣita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 47 1.24-26: atra prañcah: thakārasthāniko dhakarasthāniko vā dakāro 'tra bhāṣyakṛto vivakṣitaḥ, ato na purvottaravirodhaḥ iti | rjavas tu vārttikamate sthitvedam bhasyam ato na virodha ity ahuh. This concerns P. 3.3.57 ṛdor ap. The explanation of this sūtra referred to in the Sabdakaustubha is not found in the Käsika and its classical commentaries, nor in the Prakriyākaumudī and its commentaries by Vitthala and Seṣa Kṛṣṇa. It belongs to Kaiyata (I p. 84 1. 12-13; on Maha-bh I p. 23 1. 21-22): atrahuḥ: thakārasthāniko dhakarasthāniko vā dakāro 'tra vivakṣitaḥ kas tarhi dakāra' iti. Nothing similar is found in Bhartṛhari's commentary (Palsule, 1988: 21). (ii) Bhattoji Dīkṣita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 54 1. 23-p. 55 1.2: tathapy abhyase upadhmaniyasya seṣe 'abhyase car ca' iti jastvena bakāra eva śruyeta / isyate tv abhyase jakāra iti prañcaḥ / appears to refer to Kaiyata (1 p. 99 1.11-12; on Maha-bh I p. 28 1.26: yady ubjir upadhmaniyopadhah pathyata ubjijiṣatity upadhmaniyāder eva dvirvacanam prapnoti): upadhmaniyāder iti / yadi