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E. Steinkellner
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Pramāņavārttikațikā ! (svārthānumānam):
Since Karnakagomin incorporates the commentary, of Sākyamati into his own with very few changes, and uses it there for that part of his own commentary that gives the word explanation, his PVSVT must be considered as the inain-source for the first chapter of Sākyamati's PVT. In this circumstance the original text of the PVT is preserved almost entirely. I have already presented some observations on the method of Karņakagomin's utilization of the PVT'4: it is evident, on closer inspection, that Karnakagomin has not been copying these explanations mechanically, but with a critical consideration of their value, as on occasion he discards them in favour of other explanations.
The following synopsis for the beginning of the two texts serves as a good example for both the reconstructability of the PVT and the commentarial technique of the PVSVT. Identical texts (with only minor omissions or glosses) are printed in italics.
PV I, PVSV
Mangala (v.1) and Introduction (v.2)
introductory sentence (PVSV 1,8-9)
PVTPVSVT 1b1-262 1,6-1815 252-4a2 1,19-3,14
0 3,15-16 (anye !) 4a2-5 3,16-19
0 3,19-20 (grammatical gloss) 4a 5-562 3,20-4,2716 Sb2-7al 4.28-6,5
0 6,6-8.1217
0 . 8,13-14 Ta 2-3 8,14-16 7a3-5
0 7a5-6 8,19-20
0 8,20-23 7a6-761 8,24-29
9,1-12,1518
definition of hetu (v.3)
14 Steinkellner 1979, 149. 15 Different Mangala-verses and introductory words in both texts.. 16 PVT 4a7...Sb2 (= PVSVT 3.25 -4,27) is also extant, although with gross corruptions and
long omissions in PVV, Appendix 1, 515.3--23. On this Appendix cf. below p. 288. This piece of text contains an alternative interpretation of Dharmakirti's second introductory verse within the frame: anye tv anyarha...... iti: Sakyamati, therefore, has already been able
to refer to another, possibly earlier, commentatorial tradition on the first chapter. 17 Contains further discussion of various interpretations of PVSV 1,8f. 18 Contains further discussion of the hetu-definition and polemics against Jaina- and Mimämsä.
positions.
