Re: [INDOLOGY] Bāhyārthasiddhi quotations

[Birgit Kellner]

I looked briefly at the Tibetan translation (sde dge) of Śubhagupta's 
BASK, but could not find any statement there that might be a (indirect) 
source of the quotation. But Serena Saccone, who wrote her dissertation 
on the BASK (I believe forthcoming with Motilal), would be the best 
person to ask.

In their "Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India" (Columbia Univ. 
Press 2010), McCrea and Patil mention that Abhinavagupta records 
Dharmottara as the author of a text entitled Bāhyārthasiddhi, but "this 
text is not referred to elsewhere, as far as we know, and its existence 
seems to have passed unnoticed in contemporary secondary literature" (p. 
143, n. 71, available on Google Books). They say references are  found 
in ĪPVV vol. 2, 128, 394.

It is also possible that "bāhyārthasiddhi" is a descriptive title 
referring to some part of a work, and the passage referring to the 
ṛjuvimalā might be construed as "and this was refuted in the ṛjuvimalā 
in [the section dealing with] the proof of external objects".

For a further understanding of how Śālikanātha makes use of 
Dharmakīrtian notions in his theory of cognition (especially 
ākāra/svasaṃvedana, where the concept of prakāśa is pertinent), it may 
be helpful to look at Taiken KYUMA's "Śālikanātha's Criticism of 
Dharmakīrti's svasaṃvedana theory", JIP 38 (2010) 247-259.

With best regards,

Birgit Kellner


Am 11.06.2015 um 11:42 schrieb Christophe Vielle:
> In his "Literary Gleanings" published in /The Quarterly Journal of the
> Andhra Historical Resarch Society /2/2, 1927, pp. 130-145, M. R. Kavi
> notes (I attach the relevant pages below) that one Buddhist
> /Bāhyārthasiddhi/ is quoted in :
> 1° the Prakaraṇapañcikā of Śālikanātha Miśra
> [ch. 8,  = Gretil input, 923-924 : api cāprakāśātmana eva prakāśas
> sambhavatīti bāhyārthasiddhāv uktam /
> in fact there is a previous reference, 778 :  nirākṛtaś cāyaṃ
> bāhyārthasiddhāv ṛjuvimalāyām / — which one is misleading since the
> /ṛjuvimalā/ is the title of Śālikanātha own commentary on Prabhākara's
> Bṛhatī]
> 2° [if I understand well] the /Śarkarikā/ of "Bhaṭṭaputra" Jayamiśra
> (ed. Kunhan Raja, MUSS 17, 1946, not checked; which is a continuation of
> Umbeka's commentary on Kumārila's /Ślokav//ā//rttika/).
> Could the so-referred work correspond to the /Bāhyārthasiddhi-kārikānāma
> /of Śubhagupta preserved in Tibetan translation (a Sanskrit
> reconstructed text by N. A. Shastri [?< Bulletin of Tibetology 4, 1967?]
> is available on the DSBC :
> http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/titles/Bāhyarthasiddhikārikānāma-0
> ) and recently dealt withby M.S. Saccone ("Śubhagupta on the Cognitive
> Process") in the /Journal of Indian Philosophy/ 42/2-3, 2014 pp.
> 377-399, and by H. Matsuoka (in the /Journal of Indian and Buddhist
> Studies/ 61, 2013, pp. 1241-47) through its references in Śāntarakṣita's
> Tattvasaṃ/graha/ ?
> Thank you for any comment on this.
> Best wishes,
> Christophe Vielle


-- 
-------------

Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner
Chair in Buddhist Studies
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context - Shifting 
Asymmetries in Cultural Flows"
University of Heidelberg
Karl Jaspers Centre
Vossstraße 2, Building 4400
D-69115 Heidelberg
Phone: +49(0)6221 - 54 4301
Fax: +49(0)6221 - 54 4012
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/home.html