Dvadasharnaychakram Part 4

Author(s): Mallavadi Kshamashraman, Labdhisuri
Publisher: Chandulal Jamnadas Shah

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'तथाच शास्त्रानुशासनम् गुणानां परमं रूपं न दृष्टिपथमृच्छति ।
तत्तु दृष्टिपथप्राप्तं तन्मायेव सतुच्छकम् ॥' In its commentary Tattvavaisardi' Vacaspatimisra haa said :
'षष्टितंत्रस्य सांख्यशास्त्रस्य' While quoting this very couplet in — Bhamati' a commentary on the 'Bhasya' of * Brahmasutra' (ch. II, B.) Vacaspati misra has said :
___ 'अतएव योगशास्त्रं व्युत्पादयिता आहस्म भगवान् वार्षगण्यः' Hence it follows that according to Vacaspatimisra the author of Sastitantra' is Varsaganya. In the third spoke of 'Naycakra' Mallavadin Suri has said.
'किमवशिष्यते वार्षगणे तो सुभाषिताभिमतम्' So this Suri, too believes that the author of 'Sastitantra' is Varsaganya. According to some historians this Varsaganya is Sankhya Yogacarya, anterior to Isvarakrsna and alive in the middle of the first century of the christianera. Chinese historians believe that the author of Sastitantra to Pancasikea Acharya and so does Isvrakrsna too. If the following couplets are well considered, the fact that Iswarakrsna belisves that 'Sastitantra' is a work of Pancasikhacarya will appear as valid:
"एतत् पवित्रमग्यं मुनिरासुरयेऽनुकंपया प्रददौ । आसुरिरपि पंचशिखाय तेन बहूधाकृतं तंत्रम् ॥ शिष्यपरंपरयाऽऽगतमीश्वरकृष्णेन चतदार्याभिः । संक्षिप्तमार्यमतिना सम्यग् विज्ञाय सिद्धान्तम् ।। सप्तत्यां किल येाः तेऽर्थाः कृत्स्नस्य षष्टितंत्रस्य ।
आख्यायिकाविरहिताः परवादविवर्जिताश्चापि ॥" Even Sankaracarya in his Jayamangala says :
"पंचशिखेन मुनिना बहुधा कृतं तंत्रं षष्टितंत्राख्यं षष्टिखंडकृतमिति तत्रैव षष्ठिरा व्याख्याताः" In Suvarnasaptati, too, we find the following :
"अयं पंचशिखः षष्टिसहस्रगाथात्मकंविपुलं तंत्रं प्रोक्तवान्” “रूपातिशया वृत्त्यतिशयाश्च परस्परेण विरुध्यते सामान्यानि त्वतिशयैः सह प्रवर्तन्ते"
We believe that this Sastitantra was not seen by Vacaspatimisra. For he attributes the authorship of following sentence to Pancasikha, in his Tatvaisaradi.
But he has quoted in 'Yuktidipika' composed in the sixth century of the Vikrama era, by prefixing to it the following :
" तथा च भगवान् वार्षगण्यः पठति" In that very work we come across the following :
“तथा च वार्षगणाः पठन्ति तदेतत् त्रैलोक्यं व्यक्तेरपति इत्यत्र प्रतिषेधात् अपेतमप्यस्ति विनाशप्रतिषेधात् संसर्गाच्च सौक्ष्म्याच्चानुपलब्धिरिति” ।
This occurs even in the Bhasya of Vyasa. In its commentary Vacaspatimisra has attributed this to Vyasa, a great sage. On finding this sentence in Vatsyana's Bhasya on "Nyayasutra' some persons interested in history, conjecture the relation of Prior and Posterior regarding. The dates of