Tibetan Citations Of Bhartrharis Verses And Problem Of His Date

Author(s): Hajime Nakamura
Publisher: Hajime Nakamura

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TIBETAN CITATIONS OF BHARTRHARI'S VERSES AND THE PROBLEM OF HIS DATE.
by.
Hajime NAKAMURA
University of Tokyo
About twenty years ago, the illustrious scholar to whom we are dedicating this commemoration volume pointed out the fact that some verses of a Vedāntin called Bhadrahari(?X is mentioned in the Tibetan version of some philosophical works of later Mahāyāna Buddhism. The author of the present article wants to elaborate on the problem, gathering Tibetan verses ascribed to him, and collating some of them with Sanskrit originals which have been identified by the author.
In the first place the following verse is cited in the Tibetan version of the Mahāyāna-sütrālamkāra-lika, a commentary by No-bo-ñid mcd-pa (=Asvabhäva) upon the Mahāyānasüträlankara : - (fr. 1.) Bha dri ha ri(s) ji skad du/
यथाह महरिः nam mkhah sa rlun ñi ma dah I : : 8H) 6 2. rgya mtsho glin dan phyogs rnams ni
JT25: Natt nan gi ses pahi no bo yi //
अन्तःकरण्तावस्य cha las phyi rol Ita bur hhug/
भाग बटेरिव २ ces bśad pa lta bu yin no // hdzin pahi don las bzun bahi don tha mi dad mthon baho // shes bya ba ni gzun ba dan hdzin pahi rnam par ses pa kho nar zad kyi rnam par ses pa la ma rtogs pa byis pas kun brtags pa mig la sogs pa hdsin paḥi don ni yod pa ma yin no shes bya bar te / dehi phyir don du snan ba thams cad sems kho na yin par Itahidon sems las gshan par ni mi blta ho // dehi tshe ni hdiņi gzun ba la rnam par gyen pa spans la ḥdzin paủi rnam par rtog pa hbaḥ shig lus te/de ni bzod pahi gnas skabs yin no/
“As was declared by Bhadrahari...!
Ether, carth, wind, the sun, the sea, continents and directions ... they exist like external things, having been manifested from the in
nermost, proper portions of the interior intelligence (=adhyatmajnana)."
1 Prof. Susumu Yamaguchi, " ELES F#" VIII, Kyoto 114 (1936), pp. 152-153. : His cominent upon Dharmaparyesti 5. Bstan-hsyur of the Peking edition, XLY, 90 a, 8-b, 1.