Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c7.52

c7.52

(96) The Tattvopaplavasiṁha refers to another work of the same school, the Lakṣaṇasāra (p. 20) or the 'Essence of Definition (?)', which may be his own work since after criticizing two of the characteristics of perception (avyabhicāri, vyavasāyātmakam) according to the Nyāya definition (N.S. 1.¹.⁴) he refers the reader to the above work for the criticism of the other characteristic (avyapadeśyam). As the editors have pointed out (pp. iii, iv), the reference in Śrī Harṣa's Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya to a school of the Lokāyatas, which like the Mādhyamika school of Buddhism and the school of Śaṅkara is said to have denied the validity of all means of knowledge (pramāṇas) is most probably a reference to this school.