Samraicca Kaha Vol 01

Author(s): Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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INTRODUCTION.
We capnot make out from Uddyotana's remark whether Haribhadra was still alive or not, when it was written; somo twenty or thirty years before that date, however, he must have been actually teaching Uddyotana. We may, therefore, take that opooh, say 780 A.D. or later, as the time of his literary activity, which considering the extraordinary number of praba
nas he wrote must have extended over twenty years at least. ' He quotes many authors, Brahmanioal, Buddhist, and Jaina; a list of them containing thirty names has been drawh up by Jinavijaya, 1.c., p. 11. From among them the following may be mentioned as interesting from a chronological point of view : Dignāga, Dharmakirti, Bhartphari (author of the Vakyapadiya, about 850 A.D.), and Kumarila. Haribhadra quotes, in his Vivarana of the Nandigūtra, several paraages from the Cūrni of that sūtra by Jinadasagani-mahattara without mentioning his name. The Cürni way finished in the Saka-year 598 = 677 A.D. To about the same time belongs Siddhasenadiv&kara whom Haribhadraw quotes ; for he uses, no duubf, Dharmakirti,' though he does not name him. We thus see that Haribhadra quoted many of the celebrities who Hourished in, the tentury preceding his own. On the other hand he does not quote Sarkara who rose wo high above all his contemporaries that Haribbadra could not have ignored him if he had lived at or after his time. We, therefore, conclude that the tradition of Sankara's school is right, or at least not far wrong: in placing his life in 788–820 A.D. Nor does
Dharmakirti qualifies pratyakra only as abhränta (and Dbarmottaru expressly says bhrantam hy unumānam), while Siddhavenedivákara in Nyá. yávatāra uff claims abhrānta for pratykra as #ell as anumana; similarly, he exteads the distinction of evürthi and patártha, which properly applies to anumana only, to pratyakra also, ibidem 12. Apparently he thought to improye oh Dharmakirti by a wholesalo generalisation of nice distinr. tiona! He is different from Siddhreenagani, the author of the Tatt. vartha-vetti, decause the datter quotes ad. II 25 from Haribhadra's com mentary on the Nandisätra, keo Kalya'navijaya, l.co, p. 29; Haribhadra, therefore, intervenes betwenu both Siddhasonas. It may be mantioned that the younger one quotes ad. I, 10 . verte by Aryn-Siddhwunne, who Jaay or may not be Siddhavanadivákare.