History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c91.312

v7.c91.312

1644a 1644 a. Vide also 'Buddhist India' by Rhys Davids pp 318-320 (5th ed of 1917, the first being of 1903) about persecution and 'Life and Teaching of Buddha' by Devamitta Dharmapala p. 7 about Kumārila and Śaṅkara having waged only a polemic war and nothing more The Tantra-vārtika of Kumārila also suggests that the Buddhists were afraid of polemic skirmishes with the Mīmāṁsakas and that, while stating in one breath that everything is momentary, the Buddhists at the same time foolishly boasted that their sacred texts also were eternal, borrowing that idea from the Vedic doctrines; यथा मीमांसकत्रस्ताः शाक्यवैशेषिकादयः । नित्य एवागमोऽस्माकमित्याहुः शून्यचेतनम् ॥'p 235. तत्र शाक्यैः प्रसिद्धापि सर्वक्षणिकवादिता । त्यज्यते वेदसिद्धान्ताञ्जल्पद्भिर्नित्यमागमम् ॥ p 236. Vide note (2011) which will show that Kumārila was prepared to admit the usefulness of Buddha's teachings up to a certain point. Other literary works also show that it was a polemic war e. g. the वासवदत्ता of सुबन्धु (not later than 6th century A. D.) says 'केचिज्जैमिनिमतानुसारिण इव तथागतमतध्वंसिन.' (p 144, Hall's ed.).