[N.S.l 



] Indian Logic as 'preserved in Tibet, , 9J> i 



establishment of sense-perception ; (2) svarthanumana, Tih. ; ran- 

 gi-doG-gyi-rjeg-su^dpag-pa, or inference for one's own self; and 

 (3) parartha-nnmana, Tib : gshan-gyi-don-gjri-rjes-su-dpag-pa 

 or inference for the sake of others. In the concluding lines 

 Dharmakirti is described as a great sage of unrivalled fame. > 

 The work was ti^nslated into Tibetan by the Kasmlrian Pandita 

 Parahitabhadra(Tib. : Gshan-la-phan-pa-bzan-po) and the Tibet- 

 an interpreter Blo-ldan-ses-rab in the matchless city of Kasmira; 



11. mj 



(Tib. : Rigs-pahi-thigs-pa- 



shes-bya-wahi-rab-tu-byed-pa) — " a treatise named a drop of 



logic " by Dharmakirti. It consists of eight leaves (leaf ;^47 ^55) 



of the Tangyur, mdo, she, and begins with an invocfition to 

 Manju-sii-kumarabhuta. The three chapters into whnh it is 

 divided are named, respectively, as follows ; — (1) pratyaksa, Tib. ; 

 mnon-sum, or sense-perception ; (2) svarthanumana, Tib. : bdao"* 

 gi-don-gyi rjes-su-dpag-pa, or iaaference for one's own selfj and 

 (3) pararthanumana, Tib.: gshan-gyi-don -rjes-su-dpag-pa, or 



inference for the sake of others. In the concluding lines it is 

 stated that "Dharmakirti vanquished the Tirthikas without excep- 

 tion in the manner as S'akyamnni had subdued the large army 

 of Mara; and as the sun dispels darkness, the Nyayabindu has 

 exterminated the Atmaka theory (that is, the Tirthika doctrine) 



Wonderful !"» 



12. Nyayahindu'tika (Tib. : Rigs-pahi-thigs-pa-rgya-cher- 

 hgrel-wa) — ** a detailed explanation of Nyayabindu (No. 11) " by 

 Vinitadeva (Tib. : Dul-wahi-lha). It extends over 48 leaves (leaf 

 1— 43a) of the Tangyur, mdo, she, and begins with an invoca- 

 tion to Manju-sri-kumarabhuta. The work was translated into 



I Dharmakirti was born in Southern India 



2 



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(Tangyar, ipdo, she, leaf 43). 



The reading ^^^1 ^^ ^^® third liue of the above verse reproduced hi 





tlie excellent Eassian edition of the Tibetan Nyayabinda (by F. J. Sher- 

 batski) seenia to be a mistake for grn I 



