Re: [INDOLOGY] The definition of vārttika as a type of commentary

[Ashok Aklujkar]

Birgit,

Your emendation of yatra to atra ('tra) is fine (so also of anupapatticodanā to anupapatticodanāt). But dyotyate will not work. Its initial, being a conjunct consonant, will make the preceding short vowel (a fifth syllable in the verse quarter) guru or heavy and disturb the metre. The meaning 'indicates, suggests' will also not fit, because the removal of the objection is explicitly done, not suggested. Most importantly, there is no need to change diiyate to dyotyate. Constructions such as mama do.so na diiyate are found (usually in the copyist's apology at the end of a manuscript). Therefore, parihaaro 'tra diiyate in the sense of parihaaro 'tra ucyate/kriyate/upanyasyate is quite in keeping with the idiom of classical Sanskrit. 

a.a. 


> On Feb 21, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Birgit Kellner <kellner at ASIA-EUROPE.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I was wondering whether any of you could help with tracing definitions
> of vārttika as a type of commentary.
> 
> Hemacandra gives this definition in the Abhidhānacintāmaṇi:
> 
> Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 2.170  [=Boethlingk/Rieu ed. verse no. 256]:
> uktānuktaduruktārthacintākāri tu vārttikam | ṭīkā nirantaravyākhyā
> pañjikā padabhañjikā ||
> 
> A vārttika thus scrutinizes (the basic text) in terms of what has been
> taught in it, what has not been taught in it, and what has been badly
> taught in it. (Some remarks in Wezler 1974 on Yuktidīpikā, and 1975
> Sekundär-Suffixe-Pāṇini)
> 
> A different definition is found in some Buddhist pramāṇa commentaries.
> 
> Prajñākaragupta's Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkārabhāṣya (ed. Sāṅkṛtyāyana 1953, p
> 521): sūtrāṇām anupapatticodanā(t? cf. below) tatparihāro
> viśeṣābhidhānaṃ ceti vārttikalakṣaṇam.
> 
> Vibhūticandra's notes attached to the paper manuscript of
> Manorathanandin's Pramāṇavārttikavṛtti (reproduced in the edition of PVV
> Sāṅkṛtyāyana 1938-40, p. 516):
> 
> vārttikaṃ ca viśeṣābhidhānādirūpaṃ yathoktaṃ sūtrānāṃ anupapatticodanāt
> tatparihāro viśeṣābhidhānam iti lakṣaṇam <|> ayam evārthaḥ paroktaḥ |
> 
> sūtrānāṃ doṣam udbhāvya parihāro yatra dīyate |
> viśeṣacodanā cāpi vārttikaṃ tat prakīrtitam <||> iti ||
> 
> (Emendations to first half necessary for metrical and grammatical
> reasons, perhaps "parihāro 'tra dyotyate"?)
> 
> I'm not sure how to best make sense of the second definition. Does
> anyone know other occurrences of it, or pertinent discussions?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Birgit Kellner
> 
> 
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