Sambodhi 2002 Vol 25

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Vol. XXV, 2002 VERSES RELATING TO SVABHĀVAVĀDA : A COLLECTION 87 13. See Verse No. 10 above. It is introduced with the sentence : "The
Laukāyatika-s speak of svabhāva as the cause of the world"; SSś, p. 36 ("This verse is found in the work of the Lokāyatika-s.", on SK, v. 27); Cūrņi on SKS, 1.1.17, p. 29 (introduces kah kantakānām, etc.) with "as of the
Lokāyatika-s”). 14. See my article, "Haribhadra's Views on Svabhāvavāda and the Lokāyata",
Jain Journal, Vol. XXXVI, No.1, July 2001, pp. 46-52. Sāntarakṣita refutes
the doctrines of svabhāva and Lokāyata in TS, Chs. 4 and 22 respectively. 15. Candrakirti, Madhyamakāvatāra, before and after v. 100, summarized by A.
K. Warder, Outlines of Indian Philosophy, Delhi : MLBD, 1971, p. 35. 16. SDS, Ch. 1, p. 11; Vidyāranya, Vivarana-prameyasargraha, Benares : E. J.
Lazarus and Co., 1893, p. 210; Nilakantha on the Mbh. (Vulgate ed.),
Āranyakaparvan, 32.13, 32.32. 17. Somadevasūri, Yaśastilaka-campū, Mumbai : Nirnay Sagar Press, 1903,
Āśvāsa 3, pp. 379-82. 18. For Vidyāranya and Nīlakantha, see n16; Agnicit Purusottama, Nșsimha
Aśrama and Rāmatirtha identify svabhāva with the Cārvāka in their commentaries on sŚ, 1.528. Ānandagiri in his sub-commentary on Sankara's Brhadāranyakabhāsya (4.3.6) refers to the Lokayata and dehātmavāda although Sankara speaks of the svabhāvavādin-s only (Poona : Anandashram, 1914, pp. 552, 554). Some non-Vedāntins, too, equate the two doctrines, See, e.g., Ślānka, SKSVỊ, on 1.1.12, p. 14; Cakrapānidatta on the Caraka-samhita, Sūtrasthāna, 11.6, Varanasi: Chaukhambha
Sanskrit Samsthan, 1984, p. 68 and Varadarāja, KB on NK, 1.5; p. 9. 19. Keith Campbell has characterized materialism on the basis of three
principles, viz.;
(1) “Everything that is, is material”. (2) "Everything that can be explained can be explained on the basis of
laws involving only the antecedent physical conditions.” (3) "There is a cause of every event."
("Materialism" in : Paul Edwards (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosohy, New York :
Macmillan Publishing Co. & Free Press, 1972 reprint, Vol. 5, p. 179) If svabhāvavāda=accidentalism, can it then be admitted as materialistic at all ?