Some notes on the Tattvasamgraha

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Some notes on the Tattvasamgraha

By Louis de la Vallee Poussin

The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol.V, No.2, 1929.06

pp. 354-355.

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p. 354

Due praise has been paid to the remarkable
edition of the Tattva-samgraha by Embar
Krishnamacharya, accompanied by an excellent
Introduction, and to the Foreward where the General
Editor of the Gaekwad's Series has given much useful
information. My only aim is to give some references:

1. The karikas 222, 223, 285, 311, 328-9, 336 are
quoted by Prajnakaramati in his commentary to
Bodhicaryavatara, ix. 58.

2. The stanza (cited on p.129)
drstidamstravabhedam ca bhramsam caveksya
karmanam / dasayanti jina dharmam vyaghripota-
paharavat //

is quoted from Abhidharmakosa, chap.ix, translation,
p.265. The author is Kumaralabha (or Kumaralata). The
whole chapter on the Vatsiputriyas is closely related
to the Kosa; for instance, the argument asti sattva
upapadukah (p.129) is discussed on p.256 and
bharahara is discussed on p.256.

p. 355

3. The beautiful analysis of the nature of
Bodhisattva, p.872, owes also much to Vasubandhu's
Kosa. The sentence yatha Kecid upalabhyante 'titaram
abhyastanairghrnya......is textually to be found in
chap.iii, translation, p.191, 1. 18 (compare vii,
p.84).

4. The karikas 3241-3242, tasmin dhyanasamapanne
.....are quoted in the commentary to Bodicaryavatara,
ix, 36 (with the addition uktam ca). [The quotation
which follows is from Nagarjuna's Catustava]. This
theory that the Buddha himself did not preach is an
old one: the Vibhasa explains at lengh that men will
not believe what men say, because men are liars. But
they will have confidence in the word Of trees,
because trees, not being "living beings" (sattva), do
not lie.

5. The Isvarapariksa is to be compared with Kosa,
chap.ii, p.311 and Bodhicaryavatara, ix, 119-126.

6. The text p.126, 1, 6, is Anguttaranikaya, i,
p.22: ekapuggalo bhikkhave loke uppajjamo uppajjati
bahujanahitaya...... katamo ekapuggalo? tathagato
....... Quoted in kosa, ix, transl. p.259. The
Sammitiyanikayasastra, Nanjio 1272, Takakusu, vol.32,
refers to that Agama.

7. As noted in the Foreword, p.lvi, the words and
doctrines of the Traikalyapariksa, p.505, can be
traced in the Vibhasa, in the Kosa,v, 25 and in
Samghabhadra's commentary to the Kosa. The
Tattvasamgraha gives us some technical terms which
had not been correctly read through the
Tibeto-Chinese translations, for instance
anyathanyathika.