Vidyananda And Patrakesari Are They Identical

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

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VIDYANANDA AND PĀTRAKESARI
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Dinnaga. Sānta rakṣita expounds next, the views of a teacher of a rival school, who according to Kamalaśīla, is Pätraswāmin. Here also, Saptarakṣita quotes the verse "anyathānupapannatvam' ” etc., which, we know, is the Vārtika of Pātrakesari. Hence, Patraswamin must be regarded as the shortened form of Pātrakesari." Dr. Bhattacharya, the general editor of the series in which the Tattvasangraha has been published, has assigned Santarakṣita, to the beginning of the 8th century A. D.12 Pátrakesari should, therefore, be considered to have lived long before Sāntrakşita. He cannot be identical with Vidyānanda, the author of the Slokavārtika, who is assigned to the 9th century A. D.
It is interesting to note, in this connection, that Jinendrabuddhi in his tikā, Viśālāmalavati, on the Pramāna-samuccayaVritti of Dinnāga states the views of a teacher by name,' Abrika while offering his comments on the definition of Svārthānumāna or “ Inference for oneself” by Dinnāga. In this context are found two Kārikas attributed to “ Abrika " which when restored into Sanskrit from Tibetan, will be found to be identical with a verse found" in the Tattvasangraha of Sāntirakşita and another
9. Cf the Pañjikā of Kamalaśīla :
Anúmānam svārtha parārtha bhedena dividham / Tatra svartham yatri Tüpållingăț pakşdharmatvam sapakşe satvam vipakşacca sarvato vyāvstti rityevam laksanādanumeyārtha vişayam jñānam ta dātmakam boddhavyam/ parārtham tu yathokta trirūpa lingaprakāšaka vacanātmakam drastavyam/ taduktam :
Krtākatvāt dhvanirnityo mūrtatvādprameyataḥ / amūrtāśrāvaṇatvābhyāmanityam cākşuş atvataḥ cf. Pramāṇasamccaya II. 7.
byas, phyir sgra na rtag pa dan lus. can phyir dan gz'an min phyir,
lus min phyir dan mñam bya las .. ni rtag mig gis gzun byai phyir //
This Kārika is repeated in the Hetucakra 10. Cf, Tattvasangraha. p. 405
"11. Cf. Annals of the Bhandarbar Oriental Research Institute XII i p. 76.
12. Cf, Introduction to Tattvasangraha ppuci. (Gaekwad Oriental Series) 13. Visālāmalatikā. Mdo, re, folio 94ff :tshul geum ma yin pa. yin'ga zig, rtags lu 'dod del des na dei logss
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