Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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hereafter mentioned. Tho Sutra of Gautama and that of Kanada, the founder of a kindred system, the Vaiścshika, are however rarely studied in modern times. The literature of the two systems, the study of a portion of which at least is considered indispensable to one who wishes to become a Naiyâyika or Nyâya Pandit, was developed in Bengal during the last six or seven hundred years.
It centres principally round Literature centering one book entitled Tattvachintaitself round tho Tattvachintamani,
mani by Gangesamahopâ
dhyâya. Of the first and fourth part of this wo have manuscripts in the present collection, (Nos. 731 and 732), and of a large portion of the third in addition to these two, in last year's. There is a commentary on this work ontitled Chintâmaņiprakâsa by Ruchidatta who speaks of himself in one place as a pupil of Jayadeva, probably the same as the author of another commentary called Aloka, and in another as having learnt the whole Sastra or system from a number of teachers. There is a copy of the first part of this work, (No. 279), and another of the second part, (No. 278), amongst our acquisitions of this ycar. This commentary, however, is very rarely read, and the one generally studied in modern times is that entitled Didhiti by Raghunathabhattaśiromani, of the second part or Anumânakhanda of which we have a copy, (No. 740). We have also manuscripts of the Anumânakbanda or inference portion of Mathurânâtha's commentary on Gangesa's work, (Nos. 757--759), and of the Pratyakshakhanda or first part and the Sabda or fourth of the same in last year's collection. The Dîdhiti again has been commented on by this same Mathorânâtha who represents himself as the son of Râma, by Jagadisa, by Bhayananda, and by Gadâdhara, and the Âloka montioned above by the first and the Sabda or fourth