Bhattoji Diksita On Sphota

Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst

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BHATTOJI DIKṢITA ON SPHOTA
also of the opinion (p. 16) that the Bṛhad-Vaiyakaraṇabhuṣaṇa contains many citations from lost portions of the Sabdakaustubha. Since the Vaiyakaraṇabhūṣaṇa refers to the Manorama and is therefore later than this text, we cannot be sure that Bhattoji lived to see Kaunda Bhatta's commentaries on his work.
71 For references see Manudeva Bhattacharya's commentary Rūpālī on Kaunda Bhatta's Brhadvaiyakaranabhüsana, pp. 328-332.
72 Joshi, 1993: 10.
73 References in the Sabdakaustubha to a Bhatta are to the Mīmāmsaka Kumārila Bhatta. An example is Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 22 1.24: tatha cakṛtyadhikarane bhattair uktam: niyogena vikalpena dve và saha samuccite/ sambandhaḥ samudayo va visistä vaikayetara, which quotes Kumarila Bhatta's Tantravärttika on sutra 1.3.30 (TanVar vol. II, p. 234).
14 The beginning of another work by Bhattoji, the Tattvakaustubha, refers back to this line: phanibhäṣitabhäsyäbdheh sabdakaustubha uddhṛtah sänkaräd api bhasyabdheh [tattva/kaustubham uddhare / (Gode, 1955: 203).
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75 An indication in the text supporting that the Sabdakaustubha was intended as a commentary on the Mahabhāṣya is the remark to the extent that Kaiyata has described the word-sphota and the sentence-sphota in this very praghattaka (I p. 81. 1920: padasphotavakyasphotau tu ihaiva praghattake 'yenoccaritena' iti bhāṣya pratikam upadaya kaiyatena bhäsyärthataya varṇitau). The meaning of praghattaka must be as noted in the Vacaspatyam (VI p. 4431 s.v. praghattaka: ekārthapratipadanärthagrantha vayavabhede sam/khya]praf vacana/bhasye drstam). viz. a portion of a book. In this case a portion of the first Ahnika of the Mahabhāṣya must be intended, because it is there that we find the words yenoccaritena ..., and it is on these words that Kaiyata's speaks about the word-sphota and sentence-sphota. 76 E.g., Bhattoji Dīkṣita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 22 1.22: yat tu sarūpasūtre bhäsye vaksyate, p. 23 1.7-8: vakṣyati hi varttikakṛt; p. 23 1.33-p. 24 1.1: ata eva bhāṣye vakṣyate; p. 33 1.8: vakṣyati hi tatra vārttikakāraḥ; p. 46 1.11-12, p. 71 1.26: bhāṣyakāro vakṣyati, p. 51 1.27: asiddhavatsütre bhäsyakṛtä vakṣyamāṇatva[1]; p. 61 1.4: tatha ca vakṣyati 'nud vācya uttarartham tu, iha kimcit trapo iti' (= Mahabh III p. 267 1.12, on P. 7.1.73 vt. 3); p. 68 1.10-11: 'tit svaritam' iti sütre bhāṣyakārair vaksyamāṇatvā[1]; p. 74 1.28-29: 'naveti vibhāṣā' iti sūtre bhāsyakāro vakṣyati; p. 75 1.8-9: ubhe abhyastam saha' iti sahagrahanam värttikakṛd vakṣyati, bhāṣyakāras tubhegrahanam evaitadartham iti vaksyati; etc.
77 The editor is not quite as explicit in the Sanskrit preceding the beginning of the edition (p. 1): mahāmahopadhyāyabhattojidiksitaviracitena sabdakaustubhena samalankṛtam, vyākaraṇa-mahābhāṣyam, tadvyäkhyānabhūtaḥ kaiyataviracitah pradipah etc.
78 Upadhyaya, 1994: 61: ... yaha mahābhāṣya kā bhi vivecaka grantha mānā jātā hai. Bhāgavata, 1999: Upodghāta p. 013.
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A systematic search for references in the Suktiratnākara could not here be undertaken and remains a desideratum. Compare, however, the following passages: (i) Sesa Nārāyaṇa, Sūktiratnākara p. 123 1.6-8: anye tu kāropadeso rlvarnayoh savarnyanityatvajlapanärthah tena kipta3šikha ity atr[a]... plutah sidhyati; (ii) Bhattoji Diksita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 42 1.30-31: Ikäropadešas tüktarityā klptasikhe plutasiddhaye sävarnyānityatām jñāpayitum kartavya ev[a]. See further below.
81 See Seṣa Nārāyaṇa, Sūktiratnākara p. 2 v. 6: yah... prakriyākaumudirkām... kṛtavan... so 'yam... srikṛṣṇa eväparah kṛṣṇah sesanṛ simhasuritanayah... 82 Mīmāmsaka (sam. 2030: I: 490) states that in his Sabdakaustubha Bhattoji criticizes the Prakriyaprakāśa at many places, but gives no concrete examples. He appears to be mistaken.