Tattvasangraha 01

Author(s): Embar Krishnamacharya
Publisher: Central Library

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FOREWORD
juana. The first two Pandits visited Tibet in the eighth century and the third in the eleventh century. Dr. Buhler, however, missed the name of the work and called it Tarkasangraha, though he correctly cited the beginning. It was first pointed out by Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhushana that the name of the work is not Tarkasangraha but Tattvasangraha,1 and he cited its Tibetan translation as his authority. But the learned Doctor considered this small pothi of 183 leaves to comprise both the text and the voluminous commentary of Kamalas'îla, though nowhere could he find a trace of the commentary except the doubtful title on the outer cover of the MS namely Kamalas'ilatarka. The description given in our Catalogue of MSS in the Jaisalmer Bhandars, published as No. XXI in the Gaekwad' Oriental Series, shows that this particular MS consisted of 185 palm leaves, and it did not even contain the full text, much less the commentary, which was three times as large as the actual text. Dr. Satis Chandra* attributes the credit of discovering the commentary to Dr. Buhler, but this assertion of his has no foundation. Sridhar R. Bhandarkar in his Report of a Second Tour in search of Sanskrit MSS made in Rajputana and Central India, published in 1907, mentioned indeed a Tattvasangrahapañjika by Kamalasila, but the way in which he described the MS does not convey any definite idea, and it is evident that he was entirely ignorant of the value of the MS in question. The same was the case with Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi, who in his Catalogue of MSS in the Pattan Bhandars in Gujarati mentioned the names of two books "Kamalas'ila" and "Kamalas ilavṛtti" but failed to ascertain their correct titles and was unaware of the importance of the works.
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The discovery of the commentary of Kamalasila is the result of the search instituted by His Highness Maharaja Sir Sayaji Rao
1. Vidyabhushana: A History of Indian Logic, p 324.
2. op. cit, p. 324, note 2.
3. p. 15, No. 120.
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4. op. cit, 324, note 2.
5. p. 27.
6. p. 343.