Vaisesika Vakya And Bhasya

Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst

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1. A long period of time separates Prasastapāda's Padarthadharmasangraha from the oldest kernel of the Vaiseṣika Sutra whose system of thought it aims to explain. Vaiśeşika works were composed in the intervening period, but they have not survived, with the possible exception of Candramati's *Daśapadarthasastra, which survives only in Chinese translation.
THE VAISESIKA VAKYA AND BHAṢYA1
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Mallavadin's Dvādaśāra Nayacakra, a Jaina work, refers on two occasions to a Vaiseṣika vakya and bhāṣya, that were apparently known to Prasastapāda. The first and most important passage that contains information about these two reads, in the admirable reconstruction of Muni Jambuvijaya :
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JOHANNES BRONKHORST
DNC p. 508-09 and 512-13:
yad api coktam :
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"vikalpatrayānāśrayād vikalpāntarāśrayaṇāc ca vikalpānupapatteḥ iti na dosaḥ,
niş thāsambandhayor ekakalatvāt |
niṣṭhā kāraṇasāmagryavyāpārakālaḥ prāgasato vastubhavaḥ niṣṭhānam samāptiḥ... / sambandhaḥ svakāraṇasattāsamavāyaḥ / tayor ekakalatvam, svakāraṇasattāsambandha eva niṣṭhākālaḥ, kutaḥ? samavāyasyaikatvāt, yasminn eva kāle pariniṣṭhām gacchat kāryam kāraṇaiḥ sambadhyate, samavayasambandhena ayutasiddhihetunā - tasminn eva käle sattādibhir api, tasmäd apravibhāgāt prāk kāryotpatter asataḥ sadadir anaspado vikalpaḥ/" etad api na ...
asatsambandhaparihārārtham ca niṣṭhāsambandhayor ekakālatvāt ity etad eva vākyam sabhāṣyam prasasto 'nyatha vyacaṣṭe:
"sambandhaś ca sambandhaś ca sambandhau, nisthāyāḥ sambandhau niṣṭhāsambandhau, tayor ekakalatvāt / niṣṭhitam niṣṭhā, kāra
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I would like to thank A. Wezler and J. Houben, who read an earlier version of this article and made valuable suggestions.
19 Annals, BORI [ A. M.]