298 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1910. 



ls a quality ( qroifa »*: )• So Bhusana must have been a very 



important and popular work. I would identify it with _the 

 Nydyabhusana (a commentary on Bhdsarvajna 9 s Nyayasara) 



whip.h Gunaratna mant.inna in his nommentarv on the Saddar- 



samuccaya 



Nyayasara 



in the library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, it appears that 



Nydy 



pramanas 



There is a rather remarkable, though obscure, passage in 

 Gaudapdda' s Commentary on the Sdnkhya Kdrikds which enu- 

 merates and explains the various pramanas. It runs thus — 



33 swuDpftfa ^fwf*p I w*j qrrfr cnfr smraTfa i ^srf 



^ 



Translation. — Jaimini says there are six pramanas. What 

 are these pramanas ? The six pramanas are (1) arthdpatti (im- 

 plication), (2) sambhava , (3) abhdva (negation), (4) pratibha, (5) 

 aitihya (tradition), (6) upamdna (analogy). 



It will be noticed that observation, inference and authority 

 are not given in this enumeration. Perhaps Jaimini admitted 

 these pramanas as well, but Gaudapdda contented himself with 

 the enumeration of those pramanas, which are admitted by 

 Jaimini over and above the three admitted by the sdnkhyas. 

 On such an hypothesis, Jaimini would seem to have held nine 

 pramanas in all. According to the verses quoted from the 

 Tdrkika-raksd and the Mdnasolldsa, however, Prabhdkara and 

 Kumdrila (both followers of Jaimini) are credited with five and 

 six pramanas, respectively ; it is only the Pauranics that are 

 represented to have admitted eight pramanas. 



The fourth pramdna mentioned by Gaudapdda (pratibhd) is 

 thus explained : 



SfcTHT TOT' 



^TO cT%* U^ sftH*TT 3J*DT: *R?tf?r irfcwfaspf I *fa- 



m * ^^ V*f«rfSr I Sdnkhya Kdrikd Bhdsya, 4. 



Translation.— "'Now for the explanation of pratibhd. 

 When it is said ■ The province, which lies to the south of the 



as 



knowledg 



good qualities in that locality. Pratibhd, then, is the know- 

 ledge of those that know." 



I do not pretend to have understood this passage fully. It 

 may, however, be usefully pointed out in this connection, that 



