Book Title: Notes On Manuscript Transmission Of Vaisesika Sutra And Its Earliest Commentaries
Author(s): Harunaga Issacson
Publisher: Harunaga Issacson
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ancestor of A was extracted from a commentary in some way or other.
In the following sections, references to sūtras use the numbering of C unless otherwise stated. In transcribing from manuscripts I add word divisions but make no further changes or additions. Consonants written with a virāma (which may in some cases be an indication of sūtra division) have been indicated as such by a line under the letter concerned, e.g. t. The text of the VS followed by Bhatta Vādīndra is designated as BhV when based on the long version of the commentary and V when based on the abridged version. These two versions are discussed in section v below. The readings of the VS found in the so-called 'Sena Court' commentary, available on adhyāyas nine and ten only, are referred to by the siglum S.
1 A omits 1.1.4 of ŚM, dharmaviseşaprasūtād dravyagunakarmasāmānya
višeşasamavāyānām padārthānām sādharmyavaidharmyābhyām tattva
jñānān nihśreyasam. 2 2.1.26 reads lirigam ākāśasya in A, agreeing with C and diverging from
BhV/V's sabdo lingam ākāśasyeti and SM's pariseşāl lingam ākāśasya.
3 4.1.13 in A reads arūpisu acāksusatvāt, in agreement with C and V
and differing from SM's arūpisu acākşuşāni.
4 In 5.2.21 and 5.2.22 A has dravyagunakarmmanispattih (read nispattio)
vaidharmmyād bhäsa abhāvas tamas tejaso dravyámtarenāvaranāc ca tamaḥ. In place of this C reads dravyagunakarmavaidharmyād bhāvābhāvamātram tamah (5.2.21), tejaso dravyāntarenāvaranāc ca (5.2.22). V has merely dravyagunakarmanispattivaidharmyād bhābhāvas tamah,13 with no counterpart for the second sūtra. SM dravyagunakarmanişpattivaidharmyâd abhāvas tamaḥ and tejaso dravyäntarenāvaraṇāc ca.
5 7.1.12, which reads in Cagunavato dravyasya gunārambhāt karmagunā
aguņāh, and in V karmagunā aguņā, is found in A in the following form: agunavato dravyasya guņārambhāt karmmaņā guņāḥ. The sūtra has no equivalent in SM.
12 The ninth adhyāya of this commentary has been published as an appendix to Thakur's edition of BhV. The sutrapātha of the tenth adhyāya is given in Thakur 1965; I have checked it against the manuscript.
13 And not vaidharmyad abhāvas tamah as reported in Nozawa 1985, 85.
