The Bauddha-Santāna Dvātriṃśikā of Siddhasena Divākara

As one of the sources complementary to the Buddhist proper for the study of the Buddhist doctrines, philosophy, and epistemology, are notices figuring in the Nirgrantha literature This field is particularly valuable for the period between the fifth and the ninth century A D, when several dialectical and commentarial works of the two major Nirgrantha

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ढाकी सिद्धसेन दिवाकर (400-444 ई.) की 'बौद्धसन्तानद्वात्रिंशिका' का परिचय देते हैं — महायान बौद्ध सिद्धान्तों का निरूपण करनेवाली प्राचीनतम निर्ग्रन्थ कृति, खण्डन से मुक्त। 31 पद्यों में मंगलश्लोक लुप्त है; शब्दावली दिङ्नाग से पूर्ववर्ती। लेखक अनुवाद नहीं, पारिभाषिक शब्दों का विवेचन करते हैं और मूल पाठ परिशिष्ट में देते हैं। Dhaky introduces Siddhasena Divākara's Bauddha-santāna-dvātriṃśikā (c. AD 400-444), the earliest Nirgrantha work expounding Mahāyāna Buddhist doctrine without polemic. It survives in 31 verses, the invocatory stanza lost, and uses pre-Diṅnāga terminology - santāna, śūnyatā, vijñāna, kṣaṇikatva. Dhaky maps that vocabulary rather than translating it, and appends the Sanskrit text.

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