A History of Sanskrit Literature c3.73.3

c3.73.3

Y. Kanakura⁴ has shown that the alleged interpolations in Çan̄kara's Bhāṣya are known to Vācaspati Miçra, while the date adopted by me⁵ for Çan̄kara is supported by Jinavijaya's proof that Haribhadra, whom Çan̄kara used, falls in the period A. D. 700-770. Mention, however, should be made of the controversy which has raged over the authorship of the *Nyāyapraveça*, which is ascribed with equal confidence to Dignāga¹ and to Çaṅkarasvāmin²; a final judgement is difficult, and the matter has been dealt with by me at length in an article to appear elsewhere.³ It should also be noted that Professor Jacobi⁴ has now admitted that the *Nyāya Sūtra* knows the Vijñānavāda system, on the ground that the *Sūtra* in iv. 2. 26 deals with a Vijñānavāda tenet found in the *Laṅkāvatāra*; I have already dealt with this suggestion,⁵ and pointed out that it possesses no cogency. Professor Jacobi's further suggestion that Vātsyāyana knew Vasubandhu and may be placed *c.* 400 accords with the results adopted by me⁶ on the score of other evidence. He criticizes the well-known attempt of S. C. Vidyabhusana to prove that Uddyotakara and Dharmakīrti were contemporaries, on the ground that (1) Uddyotakara must have flourished a generation before Bāṇa since he was known to Subandhu, and (2) Dharmakīrti cannot have attained literary fame before Hiuen Tsang's stay in India, since he ignores him as an author of standing.