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XXXIII. On the Philosophy of the Hindus. Part IV
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2009
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In the present essay, it is my intention to treat of the heretical systems of Jina and Buddha, as proposed in the first essay of this series on the philosophy of the Hindus; and to notice certain other Indian sects, which, like them, exhibit some analogy to the Sánc'hyas, or followers of Capila or of Patanjali.
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page 551 note * Page 416 of this volume.
page 551 note † Page 433.
page 551 note ‡ Rámánuj on Br. Sûtr.
page 551 note ‖ Sancara and other commentators on Br. Sûtr. and annotators on their gloss.
page 555 note * Rámánuja on the Br. Sûtr.
page 556 note * Sanc. on Br. Sûtr. 2.2. § 6 (S. 33).
page 556 note † Ib. S. 34—36.
page 556 note ‡ Br. Sûtr. 2. 2. § 2 and § 3. (S. 11—17).
page 557 note * Sanc. &c. on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. § 3 (S. 17.)
page 557 note † Br. Sútr. 1. 2. 1.
page 558 note * Quotations from them in the Sanscrĩt language occur in commentaries on the Védánta: (the Bhámati on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. 19.)
page 559 note * This schism among the Bauddhas, splitting into four sects, is anterior to the age of S'ancara áchárya, who expressly notices all the four. It had commenced before the composition of the Brahma-sútras, and consequently before the days of S'abara swámí and Cumárila bhat't'a; since two, at the least, of those sects, are separately confuted. All of them appear to have been indiscriminately persecuted, when the Bauddhas of every denomination were expelled from Hindust'hán and the peninsula. Whether the same sects yet subsist among the Bauddhas of Ceylon, Thibet, and the trans-gangetic India, and in China, deserves inquiry.
page 560 note * Rámánuj. on Br. Sútr.
page 562 note * So the commentaries on S'ancara (the Bhámatá, Ábharan'a and Prabhá.) But the fifth element is not acknowledged by the Bauddhas.
page 562 note † See the foregoing note.
page 562 note ‡ One commentary of the Védánta (viz. the Abharan'a), explains bhava as corporeal birth; and játi genus, kind. Other differences among the Védántin writers, on various minor points of the Buddhist doctrine, are passed over to avoid tediousness.
page 563 note * S'ane. Vách., &c. on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. (s. 19.)
page 564 note * S'anc. and other Com. on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. § 4 (s. 18–27).
page 564 note † Com. on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. § 5 (s. 28–32).
page 565 note * Opusc. Mytholog. phys. and eth. p. 505.
page 565 note † A remark may be here made, which was omitted in its proper place (Part 2 of this essay), that the followers of the atomic sect are sometimes contumeliously designated by their orthodox opponents, as Cán'abhuj (a) or Cán'abhacsha, in allusion to the founder's name. Cán'a signifies a crow; and the import of Cán'a-bhuj, synonymous with Cán'ád, is crow-eater (cán'a-ad). The original name, however, is derivable from cán'a little, (with ad to eat, or ádá, to receive) implying abstemiousness or disinterestedness of the person bearing the name. Conformably with the first of those derivations, Can'áde himself is sometimes called Can'abhacsha or Can'abhuj.
(a) S'ane. on Br. Sútr. 2. 3. § 12 (s. 18)
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page 567 note † Várhaspatya-sútra, cited by Bháscara.
page 567 note ‡ S'ancara on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. 2. and 3. 3. 53.
page 568 note * S'ancara, &c.
page 568 note † On Br. Sútr. 3. 3. 53.
page 570 note * Com. on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. 37.
page 571 note * Vidhyábharana on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. 37.
page 572 note * Abharan'a (§ 39) 2. 2. 27. The only copy of it seen by me is in this part apparently imperfect.
page 572 note † That by which the world is áccomplished (pradhíyaté), and in which it is deposited at its dissolution, is first (pradhána) matter.
page 573 note * Sanc, &c. on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. § 1. (S. 1—10.)
page 573 note † Sanc., &c. on Br. Sútr. 2. 2. § 7.
page 573 note ‡ Ib. 2. 2. § 1. (S. 2. and 10.)
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page 574 note § Laert. ix. 8 and 9.
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