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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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therefore, could only be Patasijali's Mahabhdshya, which may, in a certain sense, be called a commentary on the Katika Vritti, because it is a fuller commentary on the same text. But why should it be called Junip Is this possbily & name connected with Gonika, the mother of Patañjali, who calls himself Goņika-putra (Goldstücker, Panini, p. 235), or with Gonarda, his supposed birth-place, from which he takes the name of Gonardiya P (Goldstücker, loc. cit., pp. 235, 236).
Equally difficult is the next statement, viz., that he knew a commentary on the Juni by Bhartsihari, in 25,000 slokas. He calls it Bhartrihari-discourse." Is this meant for Bhartřihari's Kdrikas? It can. not be meant for the Vakyapadiya, because that is described afterwards. I-tsing speaks of Bhartrihari as a Buddhist. After stating that this work of his in 25,000 blokas treats of the principles of human affairs and of grammar, and also gives a history of the rise and decline of many families, he adds that Bhartribari " was familiarly ac- quainted with tho principles of the doctrine of
only mind,' and a student of logic. His name and virtues were very famous throughout the five divisions of India and every neighbouring country. He believed deeply in the Three Ratnas, and meditated on the Two Sanyas. He was a follower of the excellent religion, and belonged to the priestly order. But overcome by worldly desires, he became seven times a priest, and seven times returned to the laity. He was a contemporary
of Dharmapala, and forty years bad elapsed since his death."
The next work mentioned is "the Vakyadiscourse, in seven hundred blokas and seven thousand words, treating of observation and inference, according to the scriptures." As it is likewise a grammatical work, we can hardly be wrong in taking it to be Bhartrihari's Vikyapadlya.
The last grammatical work defies, as yet, all identification. It is called Pina, or Pinya, or Pida, or Vina. It contains three thousand blokas by Bhartsihari and fourteen thousand in prose by Dharmapala. It fathoms the deep secrets of heaven and earth, and treats of the philosophy of man (Vinaya P).
This must suffice for the present, but I hope that the work of this Chinese traveller which has helped us to fix the date of the Kalikd will soon be rendered generally accessible by a translation which is now being prepared by Mr. Kasawara, and which will throw an unexpected light, not only on the lifo of the Buddhists in the famous colleges of NÅlanda and Balabbi, but likewise on Buddhism as established at that time in the islands of the Southern Sea." It was in one of these islands that I-tsing spent a number of years and composed his works on the manners of the Buddhists on the continent and on the islands, and it is important to observe that those islands of the Southern Sea do not include the island of Ceylon.
MISCELLANEA. SOLAR ECLIPSE OF FEB. 10, 780 A.D. the Persian Gulf, Shiraz, Yezd, Meshd, Merv, and This eclipse, referred to ante p. 254, as possibly
Bokhara, and the eclipse would be central in Arabia, being that mentioned in the Morvi plate (vol. II,
Persia, and Turkistan, while it would be seen as a p. 258), has been computed by a correspondent large partial eclipse in the Panjab and Western with the following results. The eclipse was an
India. annular one (the sun's semidiameter being 16 9'
In long. 71° E. lat. 23° N. it began at Ob. 55m. and the moon's 14 547), and was central at noon
P.M. (local time), the greatest obscuration was at in Arabia, a little to the south-west of the Persian
2h. 21m. P.M. when the magnitude was 0.509 of Gulf, Lat. 24° 45' N. long. 49° 11' E.
the sun's diameter, and the end of the partial Greenwich mean time h. m.A.M. Long. Lat.
eclipse was at 3b. 47m. P.M. Partial beginning ... 5 331 9° 38' E. 4° 52 S. Central eclipse began 6 49 6 6 27 W. 7 57 N. NATIVE HISTORIES OF INDIAN STATES.
middle 8 28.2 42 38 E. 17 22 N. Sir Salar Jung has furnished to the Govern, 8 582 48 52 E. 24 24 N.
ment of India a list of 224 historical MSS. of 9 28 2 57 8 E. 33 21 N. which copies are found at Haidarabad, and of which
9 582 75 1 E 46 45 N. transcripts are procurable for Prof. Dowson's
ended 10 68 101 20 E. 56 32 N. supplementary volumes to Sir H. M. Elliot's Partial ended ...... 11 232 89 51 E.44 42 N.
Historians of India, in which he is to give the The line thus traced passes close to El Katif on history of the Musalman dynasties of the Dekhan. • Dr. Bühler informs me that fragments of Bhartihari's the ecliptio conjunction having been used by mistake for commentary on the Mahabhashya exist in the Royal the conjunction in R. A. Library at Berlin and in the Dekhan.
February 28, 1880, see Allen'. Indian Mail, Oet: 20, The statement in note 2 p. 354 is in error owing to
