na sarvathā gatiḥ
na sarvathā gatiḥ

Author(s): Shoryu Katsura
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Dignāga; Pramāṇasamuccaya; na sarvathā gatiḥ; perception; conceptual cognition; anyāpoha
Summary/Abstract: In his “Dignāga, sein Werk und seine Entwicklung” (1959), Erich Frauwallner examines the theory of “the wheel of reasons” and that of “exclusion of others” in the logico-epistemological works of Dignāga, thereby establishing the historical order of those works; namely, "Hetucakraḍamaru, Nyāyamukha, Hetumukha", and "Pramāṇasamuccaya". It is amazing that he could come to such a conclusion primarily by means of Chinese and Tibetan translations of Dignāga’s works, with just a few fragmentary materials left in Sanskrit. Since then we have obtained more Sanskrit materials of Dignāga, especially from the Sanskrit version of Jinendrabuddhi’s "Pramāṇasamuccaya-ṭīkā". Thus, the aim of this paper is to clarify the difference between perception and conceptual cognition in Dignāga’s epistemology, by focusing on the phrase “Not known in toto” (na sarvathā gatiḥ) that appears three times in the "Pramāṇasamuccaya".

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