Tibetan Citations Of Bhartaharis Verses And Problem Of His Date

Author(s): Hajime Nakamura
Publisher: Hajime Nakamura

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BHARTRHARI'S VERSES
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de dag ñid du sha bar hgyur // (fr. 15) rab tu byed pa gcig hbyed la /
man por rab tu phye ba pa / de ni (127 b) luń ston rtogs pa las /
tshans pa mchog ni chud par hgyur // shes rgya cher ro //
Tr... · Bhatahari and others, who are brahmavādins, also say:
(fr. 3) The beginningless, eternal Brahman, whose essence is Word and Syllable (aksara, undestructable) . . . , from That, things have evolved, and the function of the world also has appeared."
(=anādinidhanam brahma sabdatattvam yad akşaram/
vivartate' rthabhāvena prakriyā jagato yataḥ//_ Vākyap. I, I) (fr. 4) Whatever has appeared by dint of imaginary assumption (parikalpa) does not abide.
Imaginary assumptions appear in various forms by dint of ratiocination (tarka, vitarka), scriptural dogma (āgama) and reasoning (anumāna).'
(cf. Vākyp. II, v, 143, p. 140; III, 4, 1-2, p. 139; III, 14, v. 199. p. 550) (fr. 5) 'Separation and connection (samsarga), being (bhāva) and nonbeing (abhāva), order (temporal sequence) and non-order (simultaneity), truth and falsehood, various things are manifested from Ātman, the Truth.
(cf. avirodhi virodhi vā sann asan vāpi tattvatah /
kramavān akramo vāpi nābhāva upapadyate / Väkyap. III, 3, 66,
p. 130) (cf. II, 317. p. 214.) (fr. 6) "(It is the internal cause of beings (bhūta), which put forth effort and appear in time (temporal sequence). Deliverance is to be saved and relieved. This is taught by those who wish for deliverance.
(fr. 7) The sensation (vedanā) of it is divided in a uniform and multiform way.
It is like water in contrast with the multitude of waters and like flames which flare and vanish.' (cf. Vākyap. II, 252; 480)
(fr. 8) “Therefore a man who now belongs to a superior clan becomes (a member) of a distinctive family (kula) as when many clouds bearing water are born of winds.' (fr. 9) It appears in three forms.
To (those thinkers who adhere to various extremes, it (=one of these) becomes the supreme one. They are bound by various heretical opinions (drsți).
(fr. 10) Brahman is Atman, which is to be known by tranquility, and from