The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

94 - The Philosophical Systems
add Sambhavam and Aitihyam of the ten; and these eight therefore
ṭi 57 whoever he was.
ṭi is a name which has so far remained little known elsewhere,
and I believe up to the present time there has been no other reference
ṭi whether it be the name of an
author, as presumably we shall have to take it to be, or of a work. The
truth may be a combination of both. Maṇimēkhalai has preserved for
us the name and this important detail that he was responsible for the
formulating of eight alone of the ten pramāṇas as valid. It is
therefore of the utmost importance if we could know something
ṭi.
The other two are well-known names. It is the science of Mīmāṁsa,
one of the [59] Upāṅgas of the Vēdas, that sets itself up to enquire into
the rationale of Vedic sacrifices, etc., and as such feels called upon to
enter into knowledge and the nature of knowledge; pramāṇas, being
means of cognition, naturally come under its sphere of enquiry.
Vēdavyāsa is well known as the author of Uttara Mīmāṁsa, Jaimini is
equally well known as the author of Pūrva Mīmāṁsa.
ṭi then? Light comes from a very unexpected quarter in
a work published recently by the late Mahāmahopādhyaya Gaṇapati
ṭi in the
57 (1) Pratyaksha. (2) Anumāna. (3) Śābda. (4) Upamāna. (5) Arthāpatti. (6)
Abhāva. (7) Aitihya. (8) Sambhava. These two groupings are given in the
Pāṇini translation, the six under 1.1.5 as those of the commentator; the
eight are given in the introduction, in the analysis of Pāda I. These seem
quoted by Śabarasvāmin. See Keith’s Karma Mīmāṁsa, p. 8, the passage
quoted below.