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Acaryya and practised sorcery, he saw the face of Mafjusri and 
hi se 
oO y in and of Orissa in a of a mountain 
called Bhorasila, and gave himself entirely up to contemplation 
w years later he was invited at Nalanda, wh ie 
e e 
defeated the Brahman Sudurjaya and other Tirtha dialecticians 
and led them into the doctrine of Buddha He expounded many 
Siitras to the religious body, spread the Abhidharma, and composed 
several logical and dialectical Sastras. He is said to have com- 
posed one hundred astras in all. Returning to Orissa he busie 
himself with contemplation. Seeing that the Sastras on Dialectics, 
composed earlier by him, remained scattered about, he resolved to 
(lik, 2 b 
simply, T'shad-ma-kun-btus) in which at the opening lines he pays 
obeisance to Buddha : 
BFAAIS TAT ANG 9541 
FFT PGT AIT AS AN 
“Having bowed down before Him who is Logic incarnate, the 
benefactor of all creatures, the teacher, Sugata and the protector.”’... 
ile h . g 
and all the places were filled with light and a great tumult was 
audible. A Bra T 
Wonder, came to Acaryya Dignaga, and, finding that he had gone 
this manner he had wiped them out twice, Dignaga wrote them a 
third time and added—* Let no one wipe this out even in jest and 
na, the 
inese by 
57-56). noticed in Nanjio’s Catalogue, No. 1300. The 
Tibetan name is aa) ny’ Aq’ BY = Krsna. Tévara. 
