[INDOLOGY] Haribhadra about vikalpa

[Birgit Kellner]

Dear everyone, 

this is stanza 33ab from the first chapter of Dharmakīrti's
Pramāṇaviniścaya. The whole stanza runs as follows:  

vikalpo 'vastunirbhāsād visaṃvādād upaplavaḥ /
pratyakṣābho 'kṣajatve 'pi tadanyebhyo 'viṣeṣataḥ //

With best regards, 

Birgit Kellner

Am Sonntag, den 23.08.2020, 23:05 +0000 schrieb Pierre-Julien Harter
via INDOLOGY:
> Dear Colleagues,
>  
> Haribhadra (the Buddhist, not the more famous Jain scholar) states
> the following definition of vikalpa in his Ālokā:
>  
> vikalpo ’vastu-nirbhāsād visaṃvādād upaplava iti matiḥ.
>  
> (Wogihara 1932-1935, p.158).
>  
> It seems like this could be a quotation, and Wogihara suggests so by
> the typography. He does not, however, give any source as he does in
> other cases. Sparham, in his English translation, does not either. I
> haven’t been able to track this definition back to any text.
> Dharmakīrti, who would be my prime suspect, does not seem to have
> authored it.
>  
> Does anybody recognize this definition and can give me a lead? Or
> should I conclude that this is just Haribhadra’s own creation?
>  
> With many thanks in advance for your help,
> ---
> Pierre-Julien Harter
> 
> Assistant Professor
> The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Philosophy in
> Buddhist Studies
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
>  
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