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Art. XIV.—Notes from the Tanjur

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

I present here a short tract from Mdo, vol. cxxxiii, foil. 330–2, entitled Īśvarakartṛtranirākṛtir Viṣṇorekakartṛtvanirākaraṋam, or “Refutation of the idea of God as Creator (sic): Refutation of the idea of Viṣṇu as sole Creator (sic).” It is ascribed to Nāgārjuna, who is named as the author of about one hundred works noted by me in the Tanjur. The fact that it appears in one of the last volumes of the Mdo, and that both the Sanskrit and the native versions are given, seem to indicate that the work was a comparatively late accession to the Tibetan collection. I give both versions in order to fix the text. The work is, as will be seen, of a simple type, adapted, as it states, to the learner (suśiṣyapratibodhārtham), and in character quite different from the famous nyāya treatise of Udayana, the Kusumāñjali, which seeks to establish the contrary.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1903

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page 346 note 1 Read ? C1. Tibetan equivalent.

page 346 note 2 Text has .

page 346 note 3 Text has .

page 347 note 1 Text, cab.

page 347 note 2 Sic.

page 348 note 1 Sic = gśam.

page 348 note 2 Text has che.

page 348 note 3 Sic.

page 349 note 1 The text is here obscure. The probable reading will be bsgyur. baho | tasya