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andBucidhist StudiesNbl.63,No.3,
March2015
The
Madhva
School's
Understandings
ofBuddhism:
On
the
Statements
ofMadhva andJayatirtha
onBrahmastitTa
2.2.18-32
IKEHMA
Koreto
1.
Introduction
The
tr:edZintaschool's most authoritative work, Brahmastitra,devotes
thesecend quarter(pOdo)
of the second chapter(addydya)
tocriticism against other schools'doctrines.
In
themiddle ofthat,sfitras 18-32 criticize theBuddhist
doctrine.
Ithas
been
already pointed out thatRamanaja
(1017-1137)
interpreted
thispart
inappropriately.i)
The Bhasya ofMadhva
(1238-1317)
and itssub-commentary, 7"tittvuprakdSikiiQfJayatirtha(1365-88),2)
also
include
similar misinterpretations of Buddhistconcepts and terminology. rlbwhatex-tent
do
theyunderstand Buddhism? 'Ibsee intothisissue,the
present
author re-examinesthe statements of Madhva and
Jayatirtha
concerning Buddhism, which are normally 3)garded
in
thepreviousscholarship.2.
0n
lhibha-srka
andSautra-nttha
.
Among these 15sditras
(hereinafter
s.),4) Madhva devotesthefirst
eight(s.
18-25) to criticism towardVdibha-s.
ika
andSautrdntiha.
UnlikeR5m5ntija'sstibhtisya,
S)Jayatirtha
rightly enumerates
five
aggregates(pafica-skand];a)
which arein
thebasis
of Vdibhdsiha 6)analysis.
On
the
contrary, Madhva and Jayatirthaapparentlyhave
noidea
aboutpratyayas as"co-operating causes," which are so popular
in
Buddhists'texts.While three previouscom-mentaries correctly
introduce
thetheory oftwelve nidtinas 7) andfour
kindsofpratyayas, 8)allthese are not
fbund
in
thestatesment of Madhva and Jayatirtha.Butitis
noteworthy thatMadhva
paraphrases
itaretarapratyaya(the
opponent'spart
of s.19)
asparaspard-peksa.9)
The argument shown there corresponds to an opponent's opinion presentedin
Sthiramati's
7}'im.
SikiivijnNcuJtibhjisya.
10)Unfamiliarityof
Madhva
andJayatirtha
withBuddhists'
theoryis
evidencedin
the-The Madhva School'sUnderstandingsofBuddhism
(K.
IKEHM)dL)(137)
mentary en s.22-24 that
deal
with threeasamskrta-ctharmas. Theirdefinition
ofpratisamp-khya-nirodha
and apratisamkhyd-nirodha(presented
in
s.22)
iDis
far
different
from
thatfbund
inBuddhisttexts.i2) But this nearly corresponds toRarnatitija's
definition
and canbe
tracedback,
atleast,
to Bh5skara's.i3)Therefore,thistendency to misunderstand thetwo nirodhas
is
not specific toP"Ziis,
navaVledanta.
Madhva and Jayatirtha
do
nothave
anyknowledge
of akdsa(read
in
s.24)beyond
bha-Sa as one ofthe
five
mahbbhtitas. i4) But,asJayatirtha
narrates an opponent's opinion,he
quotesthefbllowinginference:yatsat tat
ksarpikam
dipavatfsantaS
camibhdvah
ff
(TP,
p.
97,
1.2).Thisisvery popularin
Buddhist
texts,especiallyin
the
works of 15>vtidin,tirthawhereas
it
does
not appearin
theprevious
commentaries of BS. InAddition,Jaya-presentsanether inferencei6)
(comm.
on s. 23i7)), whichhas
"efficacy"
(arthakrlya-karitva)
asits
reason.i8)This
is
sofamiliar
in
the argument ofBuddhists
over themomentariness
(ksazeihatva).
i9) Interms ofthis, Jayatirthagives moredetailed
explana-tionthanthepreviouscommentaries. 2e)
3.
0n
Su'",ryavdda
t r
InMadhva's Bhdtlya,next comes a criticism of
Siiayavadin
(s.
26-29).Though
Sfiaya-vlida was treatedlightlyinthe Ulgddnta school, 2i)
Madhva
andits
fo11owers
boldly
considerSijayavada
important
as todevote
toit
a separate section(adizikara4a)
.22)wnat
is
strangeris
thiscitation ofptirvapaksa: atahsiaaydd
evaJ'qgad-uclaya-sampbhavad and Stiayadeva1'agaauipatldu
ko dosa iti.23) The actual theory ofEinayavbda,
namely, Mtedhyamihacer-tainly
does
not statethat
the
world isproduced
from emptiness. 24) ButSankara's
fbllowingstatement provides a good clue as tothispfirvapaksa:2S)
dunlyanti
cabhavadbhdvoipattim
-"nanupamrdya pradurbhavdt" iti.26)Here
Sankara
quotes
A57dyastitra
4.1.4,27) whichargues the productionof an effect after
destruction
of a cause, and attributesit
toBud-dhists,
especiallySiittyavddo.
28)Therefbre,
Jayatirtha's
statementis
not totally unrelated toBuddhism.29)
4.
0n
Pijfia-namdtra"stitvavdda
The
next andlast
part
ofthis section(s.
3o-31)3D)is
devoted
toarefutation to Ybgacara,also
known
asVZihanamatritstitvavddin.
HereMadhva
and Jayatirthaneither mention the(138)
The Madhva Schoel'sUnderstandingsofBuddhism(K.
IKEHrm)Vijfianavada.But Jayatirthaquotestwo inferencesof opponents:
(1)
sahopatambha-nlyamdd abhedb nila-tad-dhiyok and
(2)
yatprakdsate tadvijn-anarp yathaj-nA"anam/
prakaSanteca nitadaya iti....33)
The
fbrmer
isvery common inP'ijfidnavadatextssuch asDharmakirti's34)and already referred toinseveral textsof Vbddintaschools.3S) ButJaya-tirtha
is
thefirst
among thecommentators ofBS
tocite thelatter
inferencethatsetsfbrth
luminosity
(praknSamanatva)
asits
reason, the originalfbrrnula
ofwhichis
tracedback
to 36)thepostulationsofSdkdravijnnyoptivadins.
5.
Conclusion
As explained above, reading Madhva and Jayatirtha'scommentary on BS 2.2.18-32,we can observe two
important
points:one isthe insufficientexplanation of Buddhists'theo-ries, and theother
is
theoriginal citations ofBuddhist
statements.Concerning
the latter, Jayatirthacertainly had knowledge of such texts as 77im.siikavijneaptibhasyaand several works ofJfianaSrlmitra.He
was also acquainted with Buddhistinferenceswhich theprevi-ous commentaries
did
not refer to.On
account of this,we can say thatMadhva Schoolseems to
have
had
direct
access to thetexts of Buddhistseven inthe periodofdecline
ofBuddhism
in
India.
As
fbr
thefirst
point,seeing thatJayatirtha
knows
assertions of Buddhistschools atany rate,37) itisnotdue
toignorancebutwith the specificintention.
Thepurpose
of criticismagainst other systems istonegate theirviews abeut thecause of theworld and toestablish
Visrpu
asthe only creator. 38) Concentratingonthis,
Madhva and Jayatirthaappear toomitminute
details
unrelated tothiscontext. Therefore,thishas
nothing todo
with theestrange-ment
from
Buddhism.
1
)
CL Nakamura Hajime PFNJii, Burojitma-stitorano tetsugaku 7"i77y'X' F 7 CDpt\,ShokiVedantatetsugakushi
ipJma
ij
= - fY'-tzS
ptil}!:
!a2,vol. 2([[bkyo:
IwanamiShoten,1951), p. 389,p.392.2
)
AboutthedateofMadhva and Jayatirtha,see B.N.K.ShaTma,Hlstoryof"the
DvaiiaStrheolof
P?da-ntaandlts Literatune,rev.
(Delhi:
MotilalBanarsidass,2000;originally publishedinl961) ,pp.77-83,pp.245-249.
3) C£ Nakamura
[1951],
p.108and V. S.Ghate,llheP'leda-nta(Poona:
Bhandarkar OrientalRe-search Institute,1926),p.170.
4
)
Inthisarticle,thenumbering ofeach sijtra isaccording tothatofMBh.5
)
R5mahuialacksthe notion ofpafica-skandiia. CflRBh, p.484,11.13-16.-TheMadhva School'sUnderstandingsofBuddhism
(K,
IKEHAiA)(139)
6)
CE TP,p.90,11.1-2(ad
s,18)and p.97,11.9-10(ad
s.24).t
7)
CflSBh,p.456,11.1-2;BhBh,p.117,1.28-p. 118,1.6;RBh, p.485,IL12-18.8)
diambana7pratyqya, samanantara-p., adhipatiip., and sahakari-ip.C
£ Bhamati(see
SBh),
p.457,IL9-11;BhBh, p.120,11.16-20;RBh, p.487,11.2-3. Abhi`VtarmakoSacounts hettt7pratyayain
placeofsahakliri:p.
(CtAbidharmakoSa
2.61-62andAKBh, pp.98-1OO). '9
)
What matters there isthatan aggregate of atoms(paramduu)
isrecognized by means of theirmutual comiection
(parasparjipeksd)
.C£ MBh, p.91,1.15;TP,p.91,11.22-23.10)
C£ Hartmut Buescher,Sthiramatis'Tirim.Sikavijn-"aptibhdsya(Wien:
VerlagderOsterreichischen
Akademie derWissenachaften,2007), p.44,ll.9ff:
ll)
MBh, p.95,1.3:nissantanah sasantinaS ca vindso na yt{b?ate1andTP,p.95,11.7-8:samtdnamantarerpa yahprati-ksa4arpvinli"ak yaSea sarptdnena saha
ksa4iha-mate
tayor anupapattih. !.12) CC AKBh, p.3,L24-p.4,1.15.
13) RBh, p.487,1.12in:
ksanihatva-vadibhir
muagart-zbhigha'ta'dy-anantara-bha"vitayopalab`thi:yo-gyae satij:S'a-saptthna-vasa-na-rmpak sthu'lo yaijsaiij:S"a-saptthneprati-ksagea-bha-vi-
copatabcVipt"nar-hae stiksmas' ca yoniranvayo vina's'altpratisaptk]ryiipratisampkhya-nirodha-siabdabhyamabhidhtyate /;
BhBh,p.120,11.25-26:bhbva-hetukovindsiae pratisamkhya-nirodhaityuqyate fsfiksmah svabhaviko 'nimittako
vindso 'pratisamklrya-nirodhah L
14)C£ TP,p.97,11.6-7.
15)E.g.,JfidriaSrimitra's
dsa4abhahgadhydya,
JNA, p.1,1.8;Ratnakirti,Kisarpabhafigasiddhi, An-vayatmika, RNA, p.62,1.6,etc.16)Jayatirtha,however,doesnot consider thisanumdna butarthopatti. Ct TP,p.96,1.13.
17)Here, Madhva questionsthe agreement thatan effect exists
(only)
when a cause isexisting(kdrane
satikaryambhavati)(cE
MBh, p.96,11.6-7and TP, p.96,1.14ff:).Thisseems cormeetedtoYaSomitra'sstatements. C£ UnraiWogihara,ed.,
Sphusbrthke
AbhidharmakoSaioiakhyabj]
Yicisiomitra,pt.1
([Ibkyo:
The PublishingAssociationofAbhidharrnakoSavyEkhyfi, 1932-1936), p.169,1.25,p.190,IL32-33.
18)
TP,p.96,l.9ff:tathopi na satam bhavdnamksanikata
Sakyanis.ecldhum Xarthakrtyd-ktiritvamkhalusattvarp nama !na ca tatksauikatamantareuopapannam !yaclyddya-klra4eghatoghagantaram uipa-dya na svayapt nalyati tadtrghatdntaram apitathetyananta-harJ,iipattih. / ato
'rtha-kTtya-haritva-sattva-siddhyai ks,a4ikotvam estavyapt bhavanamity...1.
19)E.g.,Pramanavinis'cayaII276b3-278b3
(Peking);
Hatubindu(Ernst
Steinkellner,ed.,Dharvna-kirti's
lletubinduk,[IeilI
[Wien:
H.B6hlaus,Kommissionsverlag derOsterreichischenAkademie der Wissenschaften,1967]),b.2,p.67,11.11-13; Hetubindu(ika(Pandit
SukhlaljiSanghaviand MuniShriJinavljayaji,eds., HetubindutikO
ofBha(Fa
Arca(a: FV7ththe Sub-commentary EittitledAlokaof
Durveka Misira,GOS, no. 113
[Baroda:
OrientalInstitute,1949]),
p.44,11.19-23.'
20) C£ Ratnaprabhaio,akhya
(see
SBh),p.458,1.10-p.459,1.2;Bhamati,p.458,1.7;BhBh, p.118,11.24-25
(This
parallelsthestatement ofHetubindu above.) ;RBh, p.490,11.4-6.21) Both
Safikara
and Bhaskarajust
treatSilayavddin
so lightly(respectively
ad s. 31 and s. 28).(140)
The Madhva School'sUnderstandingsofBuddhism(K.
IKiiHAiA)22) Three previouscommentaries devidethissection criticizing Buddhistsintotwo parts,namely a
refutation tosarvdstitva-vddin or baltydrthjistitva-vddin
(on
s. 18-27) and to vijn-'aptimatra-vddin(on
s.28-31). OnlyMadhva considers thisconstituted ofthree parts. 23) TP,p.99,1.10
(ad
s.26) and TP,p.100,l.24(ad
s.27).24) Ct).n4illamatthyamakakarika
(J.
W. deJong,ALIigaijunaif-lamadbyamakakariktlk[Madras:
The AdyarLibraryand ResearchCentre,1977])21.12ab:na bhfivZij'j'dyatehhavo bhavo 'bhavannajay- ate 1.
25)
Anotherpossibiresource ofthis statement isseveral passagesinUpani$ads,e.g.,endndogya 6.2.1:tad cthaika ahur asad evedam agra tzsidekam evddvitiyam 1tasmad asatah scy-y'ay-ata f;
S'atapatha-brahmaua6.1.1.1:asad vb idomagradsit1;7keittir-rya2.7:casad va idom agra dsittatovd sad
ojay-
ataL
ButthispossibilityisdeniedbyJayatirthahimselfiC£ TP,p.99,11.19-20.
26)
SBh,
p.455,L 7.27) CC IN},dyastitra4.1.4:abhdvad bhavoipattirnanupamrdyapradurbhavat 1.
28)
The edition oflY),dyabhbsya names thissection includingthisas"Sijayatopkedena-nirakara4a-prahara"a."C£ WalterRuben,DieIYydyasatra's: fext,Clber;selaung,Erlcfuteruugund Glossar
(Leipzig:
DeutscheMorgenlandischeGesellschaft,1928),p.1Ol,p.211,n. 248.Also cfi Gau4crpadubhasyaad
Sampkhyakarikb9
(Horace
Hayman Wilson, 77ieSa-nkhyaKdrikdby
tswara
Krishna[Bombay:
Tookaram Tatya, 1887]);Sarvadapt"anasamgraha(Vasudev
ShastriAbhyankar,Sarva-darsiana-samgraha, 3rded.
[Poona:
BhandarkarOrientalResearchlnstitute,1978]) XIV 1.53.29) The remaining part,namely s.28-29, seems coneerned with vivarta- or adltydsavlida
(cfi
TP, p.1O1,11.13-l4). Itindicatesthe intimaeybetweenifadeyamikas and earlyAcb7aitins.
30)
The laststitra s.32isjusta closing statement. CflMBh, p.104,1.15.31)
CflSBh,
p.477,IL6-9;BhBh,p.125,1.2(ad
s.30)and RBh, p.493,11.3-8(ad
s.27).32) This example isstated ins.29,butMadhva takesthisstitraas a partofa criticism against
Sbaya-va-do.33)
(1)
TP,p.103,ll.6-8,and(2)
TP,p.103,IL8-11.34) Thisissaid tobea passage of Prama4avinis'caya.Also c£ 71attvasarpgrahapaiij'ika
(Swami
Dwarikadas
Sastri,
7bttvasapagrahaofA-cdiya
Shdntaraksitawith the commentanyy `Pai!i'ikb'ofShri
Kamalashila, 2 vols.
[Vhranasi:
Bauddha Bharati,1968]) ad k.2068, p.705; Jfi5nagrimitra'sSZiharasamgrahastitra161,JNA,p.569,11.2-3;Ratnakirti'sCitrddvaitapraktisiavddo,RNA, p.122, IL14-16.
35)
CfiSBh
(ad
s.28),p.472,IL3-4;BhBh(ad
s.28),p.124,IL3-6;RBh(ad
s.28),p.494,IL 7-9.36)Ct JnanaSm'mitra'sAdvaitabinduprakara4a,JNA, p.358,ll.11-12;Ratnakirti's Citradvaita-prakdsavada,RNA, p.122, 1.19.
r
37)
On VZiibhasika,c£ TP,p.90,11.1-5.0n Sii,ryavadn,c£ TP,p.99,ll.7-9.0n Vijfianavddo,c£TP,p.102,1.26-p. 103,l,2.The seeond statement impliesthe
difference
between samvrti-sat andpanamartha-sat, which is stated inKamalagila'sMadhyamahaiola ad v. 64,etc.
38) C[ TP
(ad
s. 1g),p. 89,11.25-26:iSvarasyajagat-hara4atvameva vis.ayah !;TP(ad
s.26),p.99,1.16:paramegvarasyaJ'agat-kZira4atvam vis. ayah1;TP
(ad
s.30),p.102,11.24-25:-TheMadhva School'sUnderstandingsof Buddhism
(K,
IKEHrvrA)(141)
karaeatvameva vis.ayaeL
<Abbreviations>
AKBh BhBh BSJNA MBh RBh RNASBh
TPAbhidharmakoSabhasyaofVasubandhu. P.Pradhan,ed. Abhidharm-Koshabhdsya
[sic]
qfPZisubancthu.TibetanSanskritWorks Series,vol. VIII.Patna:K,P.JayaswalResearch
Insti-tute,1967.
i
-SarirakamimimsabhdsyaofBh5skara. VindhyeSvariPrasadaDvivedin,ed. Brahmasfitra
with a Commenta,:y
by
Bhaskaracharya. Chawkhamba SanskritSeries,nos. 70,185,209.Benares:Chowkhamba SanskritBook-Depot, 1915. BrahmasatraofBadarayarpa.
Jfi5naSrimitra'sIVibandha-vati.AnantalalThakur,ed. ManaSrimitra-nibandhavali:Buddhist
PhilosophicalPVbrko
ofJi{anaSrimitra.
Patna:KashiPrasadJayaswalResearchInstitute, 1959.Brahmasfitrabhasyaef Madhya.RaghavendraSwamirayacharyaPanchamukhi, ed. Brahma
sutra bhashya
pfSri
Ma`llivachaiyaruaththe CbmmentaTJ,7btva:prak[xsikaofSri
.layatirthaand a Gloss71heneonBhavadipa
ofSri
Raghavendratirtha.Karnataka HistoricalResearchSociety,vol. 2.Dharwad:RaghavendraTimhaPratishthana,1980-1981.
t r
S7ibhdsyaof RamEnoja.VasudevShastriAbhyankar,ed. STi-bhtisJtya
by
Rtzmanig'a-cha,:ya.Vbl.1.Bombay Sanskritand PrakritSeries,no. 68.Bembay: Government CentralPress,
1914.Ratnakirti's
IVibandhavali.AnantalalThakur,ed. Ratnantrti-nibandhdvali:BucidhistACyltya
PVbrks
ofRatnakirti.
Patna:KashiPrasadJayaswalResearchlnstitute,1957.r I
SZirirakamimapasdbhaelyaof Sankara.J.L.Shastri,ed. Brahmasfitra-Sathharabhasyam,with the Cbmmentary.'BhEi4yyaratnaprabha-
ofGovindaLnanda,
Bhinzatiof
Vacaspatimisira,?Y),dya-nir4aya
ofAnandogiri.
Delhi:Motilal Banarsidass,1980.ThrttvaprahaSikiiofJayatirtha. SeeMBh.