Studies in Haribhadrasuri

Author(s): N M Kansara, G C Tripathi
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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Haribhadra's Commentary on the Nyāya-praveśa
47 Daśa-vaikālika-niryukti-tīkā, the Nyāya-praveśaka-sūtra and the Nyāyāvatāra-vștti. He further adds that the Sad-darśanasamuccaya refers in the chapter on the Bauddha-darśana to the views of such authors as Dinnāga, Dharmakīrti. Again, Satischandra Vidyabhusan informs usll that in the Anekāntajaya-patākā-tīkā attributed to Haribhadrasūri, there are passages quoted from the works of Dinna, i.e. Dinnāga, Dharmapāla, Dharmakīrti, Bhartshari, Siddhasena Divākara, Samantabhadra, Mallavādin and Subhagupta, and is often described as having protected the words of the Arhats, like mother, by his 1,400 works.
One thing that emerges from all these mentions of Haribhadrasūri is that there is no clear statement of his being a commentator of the Nyāya-praveśa of Dinnāga or Sankarasvāmin. Any way the VHIL is not forthcoming in this context as in the observation12 that the Nyāya-praveśa or the Nyāya-praveśo nāma pramāņa-prakarana is another excellent work on logic by Dinnāga. The Sanskrit original is lost. There exists a Tibetan translation of it, which extends over folios 1883– 1888 of the Bstan-hgyur, in the section called Tshad-ma-rigspar hjug-pahi-sgo signifying the 'Door of Entrance to Logic', an then he further informs us13 that he consulted the Nyāya-praveśa in the volume Ce of the Tibetan Bstan-hgyur which was placed at his disposal by the India Office, London, and that he had also brought a copy of the Nyāya-praveśa from the monastery of Dabrang in Sikkim which he visited in May 1907. This probably is the same as the “Nyāyadvāra-tarka-śāstra'.14
Satischandra Vidyabhusan informs 15 that at the kind suggestion of Prof. H. Ui16 he has re-examined the Pramāņanyāya-praveśa (fully entitled as Nyāya-praveśo nāma pramāņaprakaraṇa), and Pramāņa-śāstra-nyāya-praveśa (fully called Pramāņa-śāstra-nyāya-praveśo nāma), and find that they are identical in their contents. One was translated into Tibetan direct from Sanskrit and the other through the Chinese version. The