Tattvopaplavasinha

Author(s): Jayrasi Bhatt, Sukhlal Sanghavi, Rasiklal C Parikh
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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It ends- MESESA au maaralaalat: 1 par te fêकल्पा वादिजिष्णवः ॥ छ । संवत् १३४९ मार्ग. बदि ११ शनौ धवलकके महं० नरपालेन तत्त्वोपप्लवग्रन्धपुस्तिका लेखीति । भद्रं ॥ The Present Edition
The single palm-leaf ms on which the present text is based presents on the whole an accurate version of the work. At some places, however, the writing is blurred and those places are indicated in the footnotes as E# or co; at other places the trend of the meaning required emendations in readings, these have been indicated in the footnotes as परिमार्जितम् or परि०. When in the body of the text we have supplied some readings we have put the same in rectangular brackets, e. g. on the first page [a]rat etc. He [934à].
The paragraplis in the text are, of course, made by us. We have also supplied the headings of different sections in rectangular brackets, e.g. p. 2 [9 ZANATT SATSTOFF atlear j.
This, we hope, will grcatly facilitate the study of the work. The passages that seemed to be quotations have been indicated by " " and wherever possible we have given the names of original works in [ ], e. g. page 3. [ TATHIO 9. 9.4 ]. The proper names have been underlined.
At the end of the text we have provided three whes or appendices. The first gives the index of important philosophical terms; the second that of the proper names and the third that of quotations.
All this, it is hoped, will enable the scholars to utilize this important work for further researches in the subject. Comparative unfamiliarity of the TPS.
Before we attempt to discover the date of the TPS we propose to consider its comparative unfamiliarity and the type of thought it represents. Verses attributed to Charvāka and the name of Brhiaspati as the founder of the Lokāyata school more familiarly known as the Chārvāka Darsana are known to us from such works as the Sastravārtā Samuchchaya and the Saddarsana Samuchchaya of Haribhadra Suri (700-70 A. D.), the Sarvadarsana Sangraha of Madhavacharya (14 cen. A. D.) and such other works as the Sarvamata Sangrahia. As cvery student of Samisksta systems of philosophy knows Chárvaka or Lokāyata is referred to in many of the major works on the subject. This school of thought 2. See: Lokāyata by Mabāmahopadhyaya H. P. S'astri, Dacca Univer
sity Bulletins, No. 1.