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Some Sanskrit fragments
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They come from the rather curious Appendix I (pp. 515531) in Rahulaji's edition of Manorathanandin's Pramāņavārttikavștti (PVV)' containing shorter and larger unconnected pieces of texts with clearly commentatorial character. Vibhūticandra, who was the copyist of the whole manuscript (cf. PVV p. 513, 4), has not only added numerous foot-notes to the manuscript? which have been added to the edition of the PVV, too, but also personal remarks and scholarly notes at the end of the manuscript". The literary character of these scholarly notes is not yet clear to me in every detail. One piece is definitely copied from another commentaryo, the others contain a great amount of textual material from commentaries-mainly the Pramāņavārttikatikā, but also the Viśālāmalavati., but I have not been able to trace these other pieces as a whole in the earlier literature of the school. They may be either copied by Vibhūticandra from other commentaries, not yet determined, who have made use of other commentaries already, or they may have been written by Vibhūticandra himself, incorporating pieces of older literature.
The texts nr. 2 (p. 516f.) and nr. 3 (p. 517-523) of this appendix are concerned with the question of the sequence of chapters in the Pramāņavārttika and with the beginning of the pramāna-chapter. Since this pramāna-chapter is an extended"commentary" on the mangala-verse of the Pramāņasamuccaya, this verse is quoted (p. 518, 26f.) and a lengthy commentary follows (p. 518, 29-521, 20). This commentary, highly interesing in itself, but so far of unclear origin, obviously contains pieces of Jinendrabuddhi's comments on the same verse. Dignāga's mangala-verse is of considerable importance functioning somewhat as a key for an interpretation of the spiritual and cultural meaning of a Buddhist tradition of epistemology and logic11. And the Sanskrit fragments from Jinendrabuddhi's explanation of these Dignāga-words we can extract from this text will help to understand and emphasize the leading character attributed to it by the tradition in its approach towards reflecting its own religious and cultural value.
