Tattvasangraha 01

Author(s): Embar Krishnamacharya
Publisher: Central Library

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We have been so fortunate as to discover another Sanskrit Tantrio work of S'antarakṣita, not mentioned in the Tibetan Tangyur. It is entitled Tattvasiddhi and formulates the doctrine of Mabásukhavada, & development of the Vijñanaváda. The colophon at the end of the work ascribes its authorship to Santarakṣita, and gives him the epithet of other agarrar one who has crossed the ocean of all the manifold doctrines formulated by others'. These two facts, together with the style of writing, point unmistakeably to S'antarakṣita's authorship. A copy of this MS was first discovered by us in a bundle of works in the possession of Mm. Haraprasad Shastri. The whole bundle was subsequently copied on the Photostat machine for the Central Library, Baroda'. Another copy of the MS is in the possession of Pandit Siddhiharsa Vajràcàryya of Nepal. This new work, has not been mentioned in the Nepal catalogues, nor, in the catalogues of any library to which Nepal MSS have migrated, such as, Cambridge University or the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The new MS of Tattvasiddhi of S'Antarakṣita reveals certain facts which have a direct bearing on the creed of the author, and the history of the Buddhist literature during the period. The Tattvasiddhi in the first place is an elaborate defence of Vajrayana and begins with a Namaskara to Vajrayana (adamantine path ) which is of the nature of Mahasukha or Great Happiness or eternal bliss. In several places the work lays stress on the Vijñanavâda, and it quotes extensively from several earlier works. Two quotations have got special value amongst them, viz., one from S'antideva's Bodhicaryávatára," and
1. Central Library MS No. 13124. 2. वज्रयानं नमस्कृत्वा महासुखसुखाकरम् । तत्त्वसिद्धिं प्रवक्ष्यामि सम्मोहविनिवर्तये ॥
C. L. M8 No. 13124, fol. 916. 3. For instance in the stanzaजाने तस्मिन् भवेत् सर्व विज्ञान तत्त्वसंज्ञितम् ।
op. cit. fol. 108A. 4. अशुचिप्रतिमामिमा गृहीत्वा जिनरत्नप्रतिमां करोत्यनर्धाम् ।
रसजातमतीव वेधनीयं मुहृदं गृहत बोधिचित्तसंज्ञम् ॥ Bodhicaryavatdra ( Bibliotheca Indioa ), p. 16 (ob. I, sl. 10 ) and C. L.
MS No. 13124, fol. 104&.