Sambodhi 2006 Vol 30

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

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RAMKRISHNA BHATTACHARYA
SAMBODHI
1999, pp. 97ff. 9. E. H. Jonhston's trans., BC, 9.58, p.102. 10. S Ph Su, DN, p. 80. 11. Basham, p. 226. He is also of the opinion that "the svabhāvavādins agreed with the
niyativādins on the futility of human efforts. They were classed in the group of akriyāvādins, or those who did not believe in the utility or effectiveness of puruşakāra” (ibid.). However, such an identification blurs the fundamental difference between niyati and svabhāva as two
distinct doctrines mentioned in Šv. Up. 1.2. 12. BC, 9.62, p. 103. 13. LTN, v.21, f.22a. 14. Svi, p. 9. 15. Curni on SKS, 1. 1. 12, p. 26-24; SKVr on SKS, 1. 1. 12, p. 14. 22. 16. LS, pp. 184, 295, also pp. 96-97 where ahetu, yadrochā and svabhāva occur along with
praksti, īśvara and kāla. 17. JM, p. 152; trans. p. 206. 18. Ibid. 19. PV, v. 182 cd, p. 64; Manorathanandin in his commentary writes kecit = svabhāvavādinah
(ibid.); TS, 4. 112ab, p. 79. Maladhāri Hemacandra (twelfth century) in his commentary on GV, 2. 25 (1643), p. 131, also refers to the same example of the thorn with its inherent sharpness. śāntarakṣita speaks of both kādācitkaṁ and ahetukaṁ as the essence of this
doctrine (ibid., p. 132). 19a Bodhi., 252 on 9. 116. 20. In the fourth century BCE and after, in KA, 1.1, Patañjali's Mahābhāşya and the whole of
Pali Buddhist literature, lokāyata stands for vitaņdasattham, the art of conducting disputation, disputatio. Such a meaning holds true for the Rāmāyaṇa, Ayodhyākāņda and the Mbh. See R. Bhattacharya, 1998b, 2000, 2000c. The same significance probably applies to the Sanskrit Buddhist tradition as well (R. Bhattacharya, 1998b). The name, Cārvāka, as a synonym for materialism is not encountered before the eighth century CE (see TSP, p. 639
and ȘDSam, v.85) 21. The editors of the critical edition have noted the verbal and semantic similaritiesin many
of the verses in the Mbh., chs. 224 and 230. For a more detailed discussion see R.
Bhattacharya, 2002. 21a Yardi, p. 218.