Page 728 - Lokmanya Tilak Samagra (khand 2)

so A MISSING SANKHYA KARlKA
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~ {f~mij;{ m ~ ~ ~ftf ~t ~ 1 m ~ ~m
ttil(li~OlRI ;r ~~ia- ~ I ~ ~fij: 'roil~ ~ ~
ml m ~ ;r 3,'1~i'11ttRI ~I~ :q ~~~ ~I
If we compare this V ritti with Gau9apada's Bha~hya on
the 61st verse we shall find that both are substantially the same.
The phrases ~ ~t+m:&:i ~ and ~.Iff{: ~ etc., occur in
both, and even the quotations in support of the adverse theories
are almost identical. Still more important are the words ~~
~ ~: ~: showing that, in the opinion of the V rittikara
the passage which follows ~ ~+ll(d<t<Ei ~ is explanatory of
the statement in the 61st verse, viz. ~: ~at if ~ etc.
Of course this~ may be suppo ed to have been made either
by the text-writer or by the commentator. But the phrase ~
~§tmffi'it ~ precludes the supposition that it is made by
the commentator. Here we have, however, a new and different
explanation of the phrase ~ ~<ria inasmuch as ~ is interpreted
to mean ~ i. e. 4<t+il~+iif: This explanation is more or less
Vedantic. The Sarikhyas do not recognise ~ and it
seems to me that this explanation is an interpolation made
by some one who was anxious to interpret the Kdrikas consis-
tently with the Vedantic view of ~· Ishwarakri!Jhpa
was in my opinion a thorough {iRt~, that is, recognis-
ing nothing beyond ~'f and Slfi'l'«. But it seems that, later,
attempts were made to explain his Karikas consistently with
Vedanta, as Vijfiata Bhik~Jhu has done in his Sdnkhyasara.
Jshwarkri!Jhpa in the hands of these commentators thus became
a Vedantist, and then it was , I think, that the verse originally
following the 61st was dropped and the commentary thereon, that
is, the old commentary ~t ~ etc. was tacked on to
the 61st verse. When this change took place it is impossible to
exactly ascertain; but it must have taken place before the
Karikas were rendered into Chinese. It is noticeable in this
connection that the Sankhya-tattva-kaumudf, a commentary on
the Karikds by Vachaspati-mishra, does not at all notice this
lengthy discussion about the several ulterior causes of the world.
Vachaspati-mishra is believed to have lived in the 12th century
after Christ.
To sum up. (I ) The Sdnkhya Karikas are known as iryd-
Saptati ( see verse 72 ) in Sanskrit and Suvarl'}a-Saptati in