Jnanasrimitra And His Work

Author(s): Anantlal Thakur
Publisher: Anantlal Thakur

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JNÁNASRIMITRA AND HIS WORKS
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Some of the works quoted here have not as yet been found in original Sanskrit while others are extremely rare. One particular author on whose view Jñānaśri has devoted considerable space in both the Sākārasiddhi and the. Sākārasaṁgrahasūtra deserves our special attention. He is Kumāranātha or Yuvarāja. Jñānaśri gives him a place of eminence by counting him among the great Ācāryas of the Vijñānavāda School as an associate of Dignāga. Dignāga, as we hear, received much help from Aryamañjuśșikumārabhūta, who was so long supposed to be a semimythological being. But the quotations and references here seem to bring him down to the concrete land of history.1.
The references decide Jñānaśrimitra's affiliation also. He belongs to the school of Aryamaitreyanāthapada which was successively strengthened by Vasubandhu, Dignāga and Dharmakirti. It is well known that Dhramakirti's Pramāņavārtika was the basis of three different schools among which Jñānaśrī belongedto the religious school started by Prajñākaragupta, the author of the Pramāņavārtikabhāsya.
2. He is variously hinted at, cf. युवराजराजः (72a & 130a) यौवराजकराजस्य मुनेः (94a), युवराजमौलि: (13a), युवराजः (ugb & IRNa) यवराजनीतिः (18b, 132b) and यवराजनयः (128a). One chapter in the Sākārasangrahasütra has been devoted to the exposition of the views of Asanga and Yuvarāja.
cf. इति धर्म कायस्वरूपचिन्ता पर्यन्तप्रवचन-मार्यासङ्गन्युवराजोक्तिनिर्णयो वितीयः। (128b). This Yuvaraja seems to be identical with Rajakulapāda mentioned by Ratnakirti. 1. साक्षात्ख्यात कुमारमत्तिमहिते मजश्रिया शास्तरि
प्राप्योद्धदमिदं प्रवं प्रति शिशक्रीडानकारेऽपि.यत। श्रेयस्तेन जनोऽयमस्तु परितो निर्यन्त्रमंत्रीमय ज्ञानश्रीवशितोपनीत परमानन्दक कन्दाकुर:।।
(122b) 2. आर्यासङ्गमनङ्गजिधयवहो यद्भपतीशोऽन्वशा
वाचायों वसुबन्धुरुदुरमतिस्तस्याज्ञयाविद्युतत् । दिग्नागोऽय कुमारनाथविहितासामान्यसाहायकस्तस्मिन् वार्तिकभाष्यकार कृतिनोरखामवचा स्थितिः ॥
. (ugb)