Book Title: Interpreting Vakyapadiya Historically Author(s): Ashok Aklujkar Publisher: Ashok Aklujkar View full book textPage 4
________________ 584 THE ADYAR LIBRARY BULLETIN assign a personality to the designation Candrācārya ? My intention in the present article is to answer only the first question. The remaining questions must be left out for treatment in separate publications.5 2.1 Prior to addressing myself directly to question (a), I should draw attention to a grammatical-textual problem I have pointed out without offering a solution in Aklujkar 1978:23-4. How we answer question (a) will depend on our resolution of that problem. The construction āgamam labdhvā sa bahu-śākhatvam nītaḥ in 2.486 seems as strange to me as maņim labdhvā sa bahu-bhedatvam nitaḥ or vişavíkşam samvardhya sa bahukhandatvam nitah. Normally, the demonstrative pronoun sah should not be necessary, and there should be nominative forms in the place of maşim and dișa-orkşam; possible that the author did not want us to interpret his remark with such grammatical exactitude; in his view Candrācārya could have been the lone agent of the act of acquiring and others could have joined or followed Candrācārya only in furthering the āgama. The same can be said about the parallel statement in Rāja-tarangini 1.176. In the Tibetan tradition Candra-gomin, who is a functional equivalent of Candrācārya, is not accompanied by anyone when he comes across the Mahābhāsya exposition. 5 See 'Interpreting Vākyapadiya 2.486 historically (part 2) to be published in Indological and Buddhist Studies in Honour of Professor 7. W. de Jong and Interpreting Vākyapadiya 2.486 historically (part 3)' forthcoming. The former will constitute a negative sequel to the present article in that it will demonstrate that the Țikā answer to question (a) is not historical and has features typical of myths. The latter will seek to answer question (b). My thoughts on questions (c)-(e) are far from reaching a publishable form.Page Navigation
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