Yajñapati Upādhyāya's Tattvacintāmaṇiprabhā (Anumānakhaṇḍaḥ) by GopikamohanBhattacharyaReview by: Sheldon PollockJournal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 105, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1985), p. 805Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/602802 .

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Brief Review s of Books 805

are in the course of publication: The Mrgendrigama (1962; no. 23); The Matahgapdramesvarigama (2 volumes, 1977-82; nos. 56 and 65), and T7he Srdhatrkkatikalottara (1979; no. 61).

The Rauravottarigama falls into the category of upagama, being one of six texts that supplements the Rauravaigama. (A complete table of these works and their interrelationships can be found in Jean Filliozat's Introduction to the Rauravigama, Vol. 1, pages that might usefully be reproduced in coming volumes.) Like all the volumes edited by Mr. Bhatt, this critical edition is a model of orderliness and good sense. The work is based on five manuscripts, though the editor none- theless has reason to believe that portions of the text are missing. In contrast to the other upa-gamas so far published, no commentary on the Rauravottara is available. The deficiency Mr. Bhatt has made good by citing in the critical apparatus illuminating parallel passages from cognate texts, evincing a command of the literature few people in the world can match.

The work itself consists of twenty chapters, detailing the varieties of temples, divine images and their installation ceremonies, types of lingas and the installation ceremonies for them. Mr. Bhatt prefaces the text with a detailed inventory of the contents of the book (in French and Sanskrit, with English summary), and closes with a convenient alphabetical list of half-?lokas.

SHELDON POLLOCK

THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Yajiiapaii Jpadhvia a's Taltvacintimaniprabhh (Anumina- khandah). By GOPIKAMOHAN BHATTACHARYA. Pp. 198. Vienna: VERLAG DER OSTERREICHISCHEN AKADEMIE DER

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While not perhaps the most original treatise of Navyanydya (that distinction probably belongs to Raghunatha's Padir- thatattvaniruipana), Gangega's Tattvacintimani is rightly viewed as the most influential (so B. K. Matilal). As Daniel Ingalls has pointed out, perhaps half of Navyanydya litera- ture consists of commentary or sub-commentary on this one text. But just as the Tattvacintamani, despite its impor- tance, remains largely undigested in the West (an English translation has yet, I believe, to be attempted), so this vast commentarial literature has been scarcely accessible, in this case because it exists for the most part in manuscript form only. Thanks to the efforts of a learned generation of present- day Navyanaiydyikas, however, this is changing.

The last decade has seen, among other significant con- tributions, the appearance of a new edition of Gafigega's

masterpiece along with the Prakdga of Rucidattamigra and the sub-commentary of Ramakrsnadhvarin, edited by one of the finest young Sanskrit scholars in India today, N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya (Tirupati, 1973ff.; so far two volumes, containing the PratVaksakhanda and Anuminakhanda have been published). The edition here under consideration of Yajfiapati's commentary on the Anuminakhanda, prepared by the learned Gopikamohan Bhattacharya (director of the Institute of Indic Studies, Kurukshetra University), is a valuable addition to this growing corpus.

The commentary of Yajfiapati (ca. 1410-1470) is the earli- est surviving on the second book of the Tattvacintdmani, that on inference. An important link between Gangega and Raghunatha, Yajfiapati was a brilliant logician, who inaugu- rated a century of perhaps the most fertile thinking about logic in the history of Navyanyaya. The present work is not simply exegetical; it assesses the views of the earlier generation of commentators, at times taking issue with Gangega himself. And it provoked a substantial response in its own right in the following generations, a fact that the edition of Prof. Bhattacharya has turned to good advantage.

This editio princeps is based on the transcript of a unique palm-leaf manuscript once housed in the Darbhanga Raj Library and now apparently missing. The transcript is a most imperfect one, and obscurities, sometimes very serious obscurities, remain in the published edition. But Prof. Bhattacharya, through his mastery of the later literature, has often been able to correct it by referring to commentators who seek either to defend or refute Yajfiapati and so quote him at length (the son of Yajfiapati, Narahari Upadhyaya, for example, or Jayadeva). Despite the fact that the greater part of such commentaries likewise exists only in manuscript form, Prof. Bhattacharya has been able to make them his own, and so shed light on what otherwise would have remained impenetrable darkness.

The work is given in Roman transliteration, understandably without the text of Gangeia, which would have swollen the book to little advantage. The introduction discusses what is known of Yajfiapati's life and circumstances, and offers a detailed analysis of some thirty pages (in English) of the contents of the treatise.

Altogether, the volume gives testimony to the editor's vast learning in the field of Navyanyaya. One hopes that, when and if the original manuscript-or perhaps some photocopy thereof-comes to light, Prof. Bhattacharya will provide us with a second edition, in order to make this very significant work even more accessible.

SHELDON POLLOCK

THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

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