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 other works on Philosophy as well, say or instance, to the ślokavārttika of Kumārila Bhatta, to Pārthasārathi's commentary on the same and to the Vilāsa-kamalāvatī, a commentary on the pramāņa-samuccaya of Dinnāga himself, now extant only in Tibetan.
In his article entitled Is the Nyāya-praveśa by Dignāga?20 Tucci starts with the observation that the Nyāya-praveśa with the commentary of Haribhadra has been published in the Gaekwad Oriental Series, together with a careful comparative study of the two Tibetan translations by his friend Vidhusekhar Shastri, and then he builds up his case that the Nyāya-praveśa is not the work of Dinnāga but that of his pupil Sankarasvāmin, based on and somewhat differing in contents from the work of the former entitled Nyāya-mukha, and refutes the arguments of Vidhusekhar'to conclude that neither the attribution of the Nyāyapraveśa to Dignāga to be found in the rather later Tibetan translations of this work. nor the statement of the later author such as Haribhadra, can authorize us to deny the validity to the ancient Chinese sources, which through Xuan Zhang, were directly connected with the traditions current in India at the time of the travels of the great Chinese pilgrim. Nor should we forget that in the colophone of the discovered manuscript of the Nyāya-praveśa no statement is to be found concerning the author of the work.
Stcherbatski has rightly observed that apart from his two works, viz., the Abhidharma-kośa-marma-pradīpa (a condensed summary on the capital work of his teacher Vasubandhu) and the Astasahasrika-prajñā-pāramitā-sūtra, the remaining works of Dinnāga are all devoted to logic.22 These are the Ālambanapariksā, the Irikula-parikṣā, the Hetu-cakra-samarthana (Hetucakra-namaru?), the Nyāya-mukha (=Nyāya-dvāra), the pramāņa-samuccaya with Vrtti, and the Hetu-mukha.23 He at first exposed his ideas in a series of short tracts some of which are preserved in Tibetan and Chinese translations,24 and then condensed them in a great oeuvre d'ensemble, the pramāņa