[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c92.93 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.93 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.93 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c92.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.93) ¹⁷²² Vide Winternitz's 'History of Indian Literature' (English tr.) vol. I. p 388 for the application of the word 'vajra' to many things. It may (\*Continued from last page\*) be noted that the Jñānasiddhi II. 11 (Buddhist work) states 'स्त्रीन्द्रियं च यथा पद्मं वज्रं पुसेन्द्रियं तथा॥'. शून्यता is called वज्र because it is दृढं सारमसौ(सं?)शीर्यमच्छेद्याभेद्यलक्षणम्। अदाहि अविनाशि च शून्यता वज्रमुच्यते॥ अद्वयवज्रसंग्रह (G. O S. pp. 23, 37) This is somewhat like the doctrine of Brahma and Ātman in the Bhagavadgītā II. 23-25 (नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि &c.). ज्ञानसिद्धि p. 76 explains: सर्वसत्त्वेषु महाकरुणाप्रमाणानुगत बोधिचित्त वज्र इत्यर्थः । i e. वज्र and बोधिचित्त (Enlightenment) are synonymous न द्वयं नाद्वय शान्तं शिवं सर्वत्र संस्थितम्। प्रत्यात्मवेद्यमचलं प्रज्ञोपायमनाकुलम्॥ प्रज्ञोपाय० I. 20; प्रज्ञापारमिता सेव्या सर्वथा मुक्तिकाङ्क्षिभिः। ...ललनारूपमास्थाय सर्वत्रैव व्यवस्थिता। अतोऽर्थं वज्रनाथेन प्रोक्ता बाह्यार्यसम्भवा॥ प्रज्ञोपाय० V. 22-23. - [Previous: v7.c92.92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.92) - [Next: v7.c92.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.94) - [Up: v7.c92](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92) ## Cites (4) - [Bhagavadgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.gita.2.23) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Jñānasiddhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.siddha.siddhi.jnanasiddhi) — Indrabhūti, Sanskrit - [Advayavajrasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.siddha.maitripa.advayavajrasamgraha) — Maitrīpa, Sanskrit - [Prajñopāyaviniścayasiddhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.siddha.siddhi.prajnopayaviniscayasiddhi) — Anaṅgavajra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c92.93) · Pramāṇa