Tarkarahasya And Vadarahasya

Author(s): Gurdrun Buhnemann
Publisher: Gurdrun Buhnemann

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TARKARAHASYA AND VADARAHASYA
By Gudrun Bühnemann, Poona
Recently ACHARYA PARAMANANDAN SHASTRI has edited the Tarkarahasya', a compendium of Buddhist logic, with the help of one manuscript photographed by Rahula Sänkṛtyāyana in Tibet, which is now preserved in the archives of the Bihar Research Society, Patna.
This text is available in film-negatives and some parts of it (fol. 41 a-52 b, 58) are also in glass-negative form, along with the titles "Vādarahasya", six folios of an unidentified Nyayaṭīkā and at collection of texts by Sankaranandana". The manuscript is written. in Proto-Maithili, and is quite legible, although some folios are slightly `damaged.
There are five chapters, the last one being incomplete:
(1) Svaparapramänasamkhyānyāyanirnaya p. 1-32
(2) Svaparapratyakṣalaksananyāyanirnaya p. 33-44 (3) Pratyakṣaprabhedasvaparanyayanirnaya p. 45-63 (4) Visayadinyayanirnaya p. 64-74
(5) incomplete p. 75-111
As the colophon is missing, the author of the Tarkarahasya is not known to us. SHASTRI, judging by the many quotations from Santaraksita's Tattvasamgraha, infers that its author is Säntaraksita's disciple Kamalasīla (740-795, A. D.). An examination of these quotations, however, reveals that almost all of them are taken from non-Buddhist sources being quoted in purvapaksa-parts of the Tattvasamgraha. Furthermore later authors like Dharmottara (c. 750-810 A. D.) and
Tarkarahasya, ed. by ACHARYA PARAMANANDAN SHASTRI. (= Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series XX). Patna 1979.
2 Cf. JBORS 21/1 (1935) 42, No. XXXVII. 3. 170 and JBORS 23/1 (1937) 55, No. 26.
3 Cf. JBORS 23/1 (1937) 56, No. 37.
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+ Cf. JBORS 23/1 (1937) 55, No. 28.
5 Cf. G. BÜHNEMANN, Identifizierung von Sanskrittexten Sankaranandanas. WZKS 24 (1980) 191-198.
Cf. Introduction p. XXXIII.
7 E. FRAUWALLNER (Landmarks in the History of Indian Logic. WZKS 5 [1961] 125-148, p. 147 Kleine Schriften, hrsg. von G. OBERHAMMER und E. STEINKELLNER. [Glasenapp-Stiftung Bd. 22]. Wiesbaden 1982, p. 869) ob