Philosophy and Religion / J. C. Chatterji: Hindu Realism

Jagadish Chandra Chatterji

Hindu Realism

List of Authorities and Sources

The Vaisheshika.

1. i. The Vaisheshika Sutras of Kanada. Pub.; Ben. Sans. Ser. For editions used see below. The oldest existing work on the subject. The old commentaries on the Sutras are lost, at least not found yet.
2. ii. Prashastapada’s Padartha-Dharma-Sahgraha; for edition used see below.
3. iii. Udayanacharya’s Kiranavali, Comm., on the above. Only part of this work (as far as section on Dik) with corresponding texts of Prashastapada has been published in the Ben. Sans. Ser. with extracts from Vardhamana’s Kiranavaliprakasha. The rest of this work has been consulted in Mss.
4. iv. Shridhara’s Nyaya-Kandali, another Comm. on Prashastapada, published with the latter in the Viz. Sans. Ser., Ben. An excellent edition.
5. v. Lakshanavali by Udayanacharya—giving definitions of Vaisheshika terms. Published (the text only) as an appendix to No. 3. (Udayana and Shridhara were very likely contemporaries).
6. vi. Saptapadarthi by Shivaditya or Vyoma Shivacharya. If by latter, it will precede Udayana’s works. It may be regarded also as a work on both Vaish. and Nyaya jointly. For edition used see below.
7. vii. Upaskara, Comm. on the Vaisheshika Sutras of Kanada by Shankara Mishra (pub. in Bib. Ind.).
8. viii. Vivriti by Jayanarayana, Com. on No. 1. Pub. together with Nos. 7 and 1 in Bib. Ind.
9. ix. A Comm, on No. 1, with what is said to be the Bharadvaja Vritti (one of the old and now lost commentaries on the Sutras), by Gangadhara Kaviratna-Kaviraja. It is impossible to distinguish in this work the Bharadvaja Vritti (if there is any of it in the work) from what is actually written by Gangadhara himself. Its reading of the Sutras and their arrangement are widely different from the other commentaries mentioned above. Pub. Berhampore (Murshidabad) Shak. 1790. The copy I have used is in the India Office Library (I. B. L. 13), London.
10.x. Chandrakantiya Bhashya, Comm, on No. 1 by M. M. Chandrakanta Tarkalankara, a living author;¹ formerly professor in the Government Sanskrit College, Calcutta (one of my teachers). Pub. Calcutta, 1887.

The Nyaya.

11. i. Nyaya Sutras of Gotama, oldest existing work on the subject. Published as an appendix to Fasc. No. 4, of the Nyaya-Varttika in Bib. Ind., 1897. For other editions used see below.
12. ii. Nyaya-Bhashya by Vatsyayana or Pakshilasvamin. Earliest existing Comm, on No. 11. Published with the Sutras and numerous extracts from Nos. 13 and 14, in the Viz. Sans. Ser. An excellent edition.
13. iii. Nyaya-Varttika by Udyotakara, supplementary to, and elucidation of No. 12; written when Buddhism was greatly flourishing in India, i.e., the early centuries of the Christian era. Published in 6 parts or fasces in the Bib. Ind., 1887-1904.
14. iv. Nyaya-Varttika-Tatparya-Tika by Vachaspati Mishra; explanatory to Nos. 12 and 13. Pub. in Viz. Sans. Ser.
15. v. Nyaya-Manjari by Jayanta Bhatta; pub. In Viz. Sans. Ser. This may be regarded almost as an encyclopaedia of the Nyaya system.
16. vi. Nyaya-Vritti by Vishvanatha; a Comm. on No. 11. Pub. first in Calcutta, 1828. But the edition used by me is that published by Jivananda. It is from this that extracts were translated by Ballantyne.
17. vii. Tarkika-Raksha, by Varadaraja. (For edition used see below.)

Of these works, Nos. 1-5 are of the greatest importance on the Vaisheshika. Nos. 6-8 are also of great weight and authority. No. 9 is not much known. No. 10 is the work of perhaps the greatest living Pandit of Bengal. On the Nyaya, Nos. 11 to 14 are of the greatest authority. Nos. 15 and 16 too are of much weight.

Nyaya-Vaisheshika.

18. i. Bhasha-Parichchheda by Vishvanatha. Ed. Bib. Ind.
19. ii. Siddhanta-Muktavali, Comm, on the above by Vishvanatha himself. Bib. Ind.
20. iii. Tarka-Sangraha by Annambhatta. Ed. Bom. Sans. Ser. by Y. V. Athalye and M. R. Bodas.

Other Works on the Nyaya and the Vaisheshika.

21. i. Mitabhashini, Comm, on No. 6; published with No. 6 in Viz. Sans. Ser.
22. ii. Nishkantaka, Comm, on No. 17; pub. with same, first in the Pandit and then in book form by Lazarus a Co., Benares.
23. iii. Siddhanta-Chandrodaya, Comm, on No. 20, by Shrikrishna Dhurjati, Benares, 1881. (Oblong edition.)

Works on the other systems.

The Sankhya-Yoga.

24. i. The Sankhya-Karikas.
25. ii. Gaudapada’s Comm, on same.
26. iii. Vachaspati Mishra’s Sankhya-Tattva-Kaumudi, Comm. on No. 24.
27. iv. Sankhya-Chandrika, Comm, on No. 24 by Narayana. Pub. at Benares.
28. v. The Sankhya-Sutras.
29. vi. The Sankhya-Pravachana-Bhashya by Vijnanabhikshu. Comm, on No. 28.
30. vii. Vritti by Aniruddha on No. 28. Garbe’s edition.
31. viii. Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali.
32. ix. Bhashya on the above; Ed. by Rajarama Shastri, Bombay.
33. x. Vyakhya by Vachaspati Mishra on No. 32. (All three pub. by Jivananda.)
34. xi. Yoga-Varttika by Vijnanabhikshu; Comm, on No. 32, pub. in the Pandit by Lazarus.
34a. xii. Karma-Mimamsa with Bhashya.

The Vedanta.

35. i. Brahma-Sutras.
36. ii. Shariraka-Bhashya by Shankaracharya on the above.
37. iii. Ratna-Prabha by Govindananda on No. 36.
38. iv. Bhamati by Vachaspati Mishra on No. 36. (All these, together with another gloss by Ananda Giri, pub. by the Nirnaya Sagara Press, Bombay, 1904; an excellent edition.)
39. v. Shri-Bhashya, Com. on No. 35. Pub. with Shruta-prakashika by Lazarus a Co., Benares, in three vols.
40. vi. Vivaranopanyasa by Ramananda Sarasvati. Ben. Sans. Ser.
41. vii. Advaita-Brahma-Siddhi by Sadananda; Bib. Ind.

Other Philosophical Works.

42. i. Atmatattva-viveka by Udayana, containing a refutation of the Buddhistic notions in regard to the Atman. Edition used is by Jivananda, Calcutta, 1873.
43. ii. Shiva-Sutra-Vimarshini, an ancient work on the Shaiva philosophy as taught in Kashmir. Edited by myself.
44. iii. Hindu Philosophy in 5 vols., being S.G.V.M. Fellowship lectures (Calcutta University) by M. M. Chandrakanta Tarkalankara, in highly Sanskritised Bengali. Being the work of the most learned Pandit of Bengal, it is at once of great authority and full of information.
45. iv. Sankhya-Tattvaloka in Sanskrit and Bengali, by Svamin Hariharananda—one of the very few living Sankhya-Sannyasins of great learning and practical knowledge of Yoga.
46. v. Travels of Shivadhyana. It is really a philosophical work on the Sankhya, written under the guise of the experiences of a Sannyasin who travelled all over India and sojourned in the Himalayas. It is one of the most remarkable works on the subject ever written. It is in Bengali. The author does not disclose his name but one knows that it is by the writer of No. 45.
47. vi. A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems by Nilakantha Shastri Goreh, and trans. by F. Hall;
48. vii. Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy by K. M. Banerjea.
49. viii. Colebrooke’s Essays.
50. ix. Six Systems of Indian Philosophy by Prof. F. Max Muller.
51. x. Die Samkhya-Philosophie, by Prof. R. Garbe.

Upanishads.

52. i. Mundakopanishat.
53. ii. Brihadaranyakopanishat, with Com. by Shankaracharya.
54. iii. Bhagavad-Gita.

Puranas.

55. i. Mahabharata with Nilakantha’s Comm. (Calcutta edition, Pub. by the Bangabasi Press).
56. ii. Vishnu Purana.
57. iii. Bhagavata.
58. iv. Manusamhita with Raghavananda’s Commentary on it.

Buddhistic.

59. i. Digha-Nikaya.
60. ii. Majjhima-Nikaya (both Pub. by the Pali Text Soc.).

General.

61. i. Shabda-Kalpa-Druma (A Sanskrit Dictionary).
62. ii. Medini Kosha.
63. iii. Prasthana-Bheda by Madhusudana Sarasvati. Ed. and Pub. by Weber in his Indische Studien, Vol. I (1850).
64. iv. Niruktalochana by Satyavrata Samashramin. Pub. in bis edition of the Nirukta in Bib. Ind.
65. v. Chatruvarga-Chintamani, Bib. Ind.

Translations.

66. i. Vaish.-Satras with extracts from Comm., by Gough. (Lazarus a Co., Benares).
67. ii. Ibid, by Roer. (German) in Z.D.M.G., Vols. xxi, pp. 309-420; xxii, pp. 383-422; Leipzig, 1867, 1868.
68. iii. The Nyaya-Sutras with extracts from the Vritti of Vishvanatha by Ballantyne. Books I-IV only.
69. iv. The Vedanta-Sutras by Dr. Thibaut in the Sacred Books of the East Series. Vols. xxxiv and xxxviii, containing the translation of the Shariraka Bhashya and Vol. xlviii, that of the Shribhashya.
70. v. Bhasha-Parichchheda by Roer in Bib. Ind.
71. vi. The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali with Bhoja-Vritti by Raja Rajendralala Mitra. Bib. Ind.

Western Works.

72. i. Philosophy of History by Fred. von Schlegel. Eng. Trans, by J. B. Robertson, 1835.
73. ii. Appearance and Reality by Bradley.
74. iii. Some Dogmas of Religion by Dr. J. E. McTaggart.
75. iv. Multiple Personality by Drs. Sidis and Goodhart.
76. v. Evolution of Ethics by Huxley. Eversley Series, 1895.

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