Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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portion of it by the last. All these are largely represented in this and last year's collections. These commentarios instead of elucidating the system
have in a sense mystified it. Nature of that Litora- The great object and aim of turo.
the writers is accuracy of thought and speech. But to attain this they havo invented a very difficult and artificial terminology and by its means seck to defino every thing they are concerned with in their branch of learning in a manner to obviate all possible objections, howsoever flimsy and ridiculous. Their definitions have thus become unwieldy and usually consist of an extremely long compound and are unintelligiblo to all except the initiated. Still the end they seek to attain is good, and their method is to a certain extent worthy of adoption, especially in its applica. tion to grammar or to the accurate determination of the sonse of words and sentences, (Sabdakhanda). Whatover is useful in their mode of treatment can however be acquired by studying the little manuals on tho Nyâya and Vaiścsbika systems with some of their smaller commentaries, and these I shall now proceed to notice.
Ono of the larger manuals is the NyâyasiddhânManuals of the Nyaya tamañjarî by Janakînâthaand Vaisoslika systems
- of with commentaries. which Nos. 745 and 746 are Nyâyasiddhantamañjarî copies. There is another and commentaries in my collection of 1879. A valuable commentary on this is the Tarkaprakâśa by Srikantha or Sitikantha, a fragment of which we have in this collection, (No. 737), but a complete copy in that of 1879. The Naiyâyika of modern times, whose study of the works of Mathurânâtha, Jagadîsa, and Gadadhara is restricted to the parts on Anumâna or inference and Sabda or interpretation, derives his knowledge of the Pratyakshakhanda