The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

125 - Other Views on the Philosophical Systems
discovery. In connection with it I may be allowed to make the
following remarks:
report of the
pramāṇas,
I, 1,5 (p. 10, Bibli. Ind. Ed.)
(2) Vēdavyāsa in connection with the pramāṇas cannot be
Bādarāyaṇa, since no school of the Vēdāntins is known to have
admitted ten pramāṇas, but some acknowledged three, some six. (In
the Sūtras of either Mīmāṁsa occur only the three original pramāṇas,
as acknowledged by Sāṁkhya. In the Vedanta Sutras arthāpatti does
not occur; in the [87] Mīmāṁsa Sūtra, it does occur twice or thrice but
the word there denotes something quite different, in no way
connected with the pramāṇa arthāpatti). Perhaps Vēdavyāsa should
be taken to be the author of the Purāṇas, though the Paurānikas
acknowledge eight pramāṇas according to the usual tradition.’
We shall consider the points in this extract seriatim ṭi is the
name of a person according to the Maṇimēkhalai. But what is said of
ṭ
in extenso shows
ṭi to be the name of the commentary from which the author
ṭi. The very formation of
the word seems to indicate it as a personal title, though, according to
our authority, it is unmistakably the name of the work. The
ṭi is the author of the commentary as a whole,
and Upavarṣa was the expounder of that commentary who, for
convenience of teaching and reading, felt it necessary to make an
abridged edition of it. That is the position according to this Sanskrit
work.