Early Indian Epistemology and Logic. Fragments from Jinendrabuddhi's Pramāṇasamuccayaṭīkā 1 and 2 (original) (raw)

A collection of fragments and reports contained in Jinendrabuddhi's commentary on the first two chapters of Dignāga's Pramāṇasamuccaya-(vṛtti) which deal with the validity of cogbnitions, perception, and inference. The material collected can mostly be attributed to the pre-Dignāga period of epistemological thought and stems from various long lost works of the brahminical traditions of Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, Sāṅkhya, Mīmāṃsā, as well as from Vasubandhu's Vādavidhi. The collection provides new insight into the first post-systematic period of Indian thought that focussed on the foundation of knowledge to be able to support the respective systematic edifices and about which very little was known so far. The texts are presented systematically with philological arguments and translations, and are identified for reference with a view to subsequent collections from the remaining chapters of this work as its edition progresses.