Tattvasangraha 01

Author(s): Embar Krishnamacharya
Publisher: Central Library

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FOREWORD.
§ 1 Discovery and Editing.
The Tattvasangraha of S'ântarakṣita with the commentary or Panjika of Kamalaśîla, now presented to the public for the first time in the original Sanskrit, is undoubtedly one of the most important works to be published in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. The Tattvasangraha may be called a work on logic: it undertakes to refute all the philosophical systems and conceptions then current in India from the standpoint of a Mahayana Buddhist with the help of the logic of pure reason. The wide variety of systems refuted and the authorities quoted make the publication of the work a most important contribution to the history of Sanskrit literature.
The original text of Tattvasangraha was discovered by that indefatigable searcher of MSS, Dr. G. Buhler, who came across it during his explorations of the Bṛhat Jñâna Koşa in the temple of Pârsvanâtha at Jaisalmer in 1873. The work comprised a MS consisting of 183 palm leaves (written in characters of the 12th or 13th century) which bore on the outside corner the title Kamalas'ilatarka. Dr. Buhler published an account of the work in the Journal of the Buddhist Text Society,' immediately after an article on the Indian Pandits in Tibet' was published by Rai Sarat Chandra Das Bahadur, C. I. E., who was perhaps the first Indian in modern times to learn Tibetan and to acquaint himself intimately with the Tibetan literature. In his article Mr. Das drew the attention of scholars to several Indian Pandits who were responsible for overhauling and reforming the Buddhism of Tibet, notably S'ântarakṣita, Kamalaśîla and Dipankara S'rî
1. JBTS, Vol I (1893), part II, p. x. 2. JBTS, Vol I (1893), part I, pp. 1-31.
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