[Buddha-l] Prapanca

[Richard Hayes]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 18:15 -0500, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> I take it you mean phrases like purvasyaa+eva aya.m prapañca.m, asya+eva
> ayam prapañca.m, tasya+eva aya.m prapañca.m, in the Ka"sikav.rtti by
> Jayaditya and Vamana.

Perhaps. I don't have the text with me. I am thinking of how the term is
treated in Renou's Terminaison grammaticale.

> hetav asati karya.m ca kara.na.m ca na vidyate |
> tadabhave kriya karta kara.na.m ca na vidyate ||

What does this have to do with prapanca?

> As for appearances in hetuvidya literature, the upanisadic meaning is
> displayed in Vatsyayana's comm. on the Nyayasutra at 3.1.67

The last I checked, that was not considered a Buddhist text.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico