Book Title: Sanskrit Manuscript Of Dharmakirtis Pramanaviniscaya
Author(s): Kazunobu Matsuda, Ernat Steinkellner
Publisher: Kazunobu Matsuda, Ernat Steinkellner
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________________ The Sanskrit Manuscript of Dharmakirti's Pramanaviniscaya 149 An Historical Postscript On 4 March 1991, during a research tour to Europe, I had an opportunity to make a firsthand examination of the photographs taken by Cecil Bendall, through the kindness of my friends Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann and Dr. Klaus Wille of the University of Gottingen. These photographs were passed from the hands of de La Vallee Poussin to Etienne Lamotte, and are now deposited at Gottingen. Among them, I was surprised to find a photograph of the very folio discussed here. I was even more surprised to find on the back of the photograph the correct ascription, 'Pramanaviniscaya', written in what is apparently the hand of de La Vallee Poussin, as well as the page numbers for the correspond ing Tibetan translation. In other words, the credit for first identification should go to de La Vallee Poussin, although his discovery has gone unpublished and unnoticed until now. (K. Matsuda, 19 March 1991).
