________________ 218 ERNST STEINKELLNER philosophical work took considerable time to establish itself and be commented upon in its philosophical dimensions. For his immediate followers it seems sure that they were not capable of producing more than philological commentaries 25. His own tradition seems to have worked its way through to a philosophical interpretation of his thought only slowly. And the results of this effort did not begin to be fully effective until the second half of the 8th century. Under these circumstances it would not be astonishing to see that the answer to Dharmakirti from the leading opposition, the Nyaya-school, has come rather late, too 26. Abbreviations: Jnanasrimitranibandhavali, Buddhist Philosophical Works of Jnanasrimitra. Ed. A. THAKUR. Patna 1959. TSP Tattvasangrahapanjika: Tattvasangrahah I, II. Ed. DVARIKADA SASASTRI. Varanasi 1968. NSu Nyayasutram PVV Pramanavarttikavsttih: Dharmakirti's Pramanavarttika with a commentary by Manorathanandin. Ed. R. SANKRTYAYANA. Patna 1938--1940. PVSVT Pramanavarttikasvavsttitika: Acarya-Dharmakirteh Pramana varttikam (Svarthanumanaparicchedah) svopajnavstty, Karna. kagomi-viracitaya tattikaya ca sahitam. Ed. R. SANKRTYAYANA. Allahabad 1943. Ratnakirti-Nibandhavali, Buddhist Nyaya Works of Ratnakirti. Ed. A. TRAKUR. Patna 1957. HB II Dharmakirti's Hetubinduh, Teil II: Ubersetzung und Anmerkun gen. Von E. STEINKELLNER. Wien 1967. HBTA Hetubindutikalokah: Hetubindutika of Bhatta Arcata with the Sub-Commentary entitled Aloka of Durveka Misra. Ed. S. SANGHAVI, Muni JINAVIJAYAJI. Baroda 1949. 25 E. FRAUWALLNER, Die Reihenfolge und Entstehung der Werke Dharmakirti's. Asiatica, Festschrift Friedrich Weller, Leipzig 1954, 153f. 26 The same would be the case with the Jaina epistemological school since the date of Akalanka (ca. 720--780) seems to be settled (cf. MAHENDRAKUMAR JAIN, loc. cit., 21-31; NAGIN J. SHAH, Akalanka's Criticism of Dharmakirti's Philosophy. Ahmedabad 1967). The many references Akalanka's commentators find in his texts to commentators of Dharmakirti, f. i. Prajnakaragupta, Dharmottara etc., have already been questioned by Pt. KAILASACANDRA (MAHENDRAKUMAR JAIN, loc. cit., 47 and Hindi Introduction 36). They definitely are in need of further consideration and seem highly doubtful.
