Vidyananda And Patrakesari Are They Identical

Author(s): H R Rangaswamy Iyengar
Publisher: H R Rangaswamy Iyengar

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VIDYANANDA AND PĂTRAKÉSARI
ARE THEY IDENTICAL?
By H. R, Rangaswami Iyengar In a lengthy article entitled, Bhartshari and Kumārila, contributed to the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. XVIII pp. 213-38, Mr. Pathak has tried to establish that Vidyānanda, author of the Tattvārtha ślokavārtika is identical with Pātrakesari, a great teacher of the Jains, who is said to have written a work probably known as Trilaksanakadarthana in refutation of the Buddhist doctrine of Trilakṣaṇahetu,' accor. ding to which the hetu or reason is defined to have three laksaņas or characteristics, i. e. fulfil three essential conditions, viz, that it should be in the pakşa, that it should be found in similar instances (Sapaksa ) and absent in dissimilar instances (Vipaksa). He has based his conclusions on two statements one, occurring in a work known as Samyaktvaprakaśa and the other, in a palmleaf manuscript of Adipuräna owned by a Pandit at Sravanabelgola. The statement in the Samyaktvaprakāśa, according to Mr. Pathak is as follows (P. 222). :
1. (a) Cf. Nyāyabindu :
Anumānam dvidhā svārtham parārthām ceti/ tatra svārtham trirūpāllingadyadanumeye jñānam tadanumānam. / trairūpyam punah lingasyanumeye satyameva, sapakşe satvameva / asapakşe asatvameva niscitam /
(b) Pramāņ#amuccaya 11-1: (i) Rjes dpag rnam gñis rān don ni
Tshul gsum rtags las don mthon pa'o
, bras bu snar bz'iu 'di gñis kyi / This may be restored to Sanskrit as,
Anumanam dvidhā svārtham Trirūpallingato rtha drk/
Phalam pūrvavadanayoh (ii) Ibid II 5b:
Rjes dpag bya dan d de mtshuns la Yod dan med la med pa'o / which, when restored into Sanskrit, will be anumêyeths
tattulye sadbhāvo năstitãsati (c) Tattvärthaślokavārtika. Nirnayasagara Edition. p. 203
verse 178.