In the tenth chapter of Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā, which consists 14 verses, Bhāviveka, rejecting Jain view that some episodes Buddha’s life tell us his ignorance, tries to prove omniscience （sarvajñatā）. Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā 10.12-14 deals with following two episodes: Buddha allowed Devadatta, who subsequently tried kill and cause a schism in saṃgha, be ordained as monk; Sunakṣatra, returned la...

This article discusses the function of dialectic in religious history, focusing on the works of two major sixth century Indian intellectuals and doxographers Bhāviveka and Haribhadra Sūri, who belonged to the competing Madhyamaka Buddhist and Jaina traditions respectively. The article studies how these two figures used medical metaphors for their dialectic purposes.

バーヴィヴェーカ（Bhāviveka, ca. 490-570）作Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā（MHK）のmadhyamakaについて，注釈Tarkajvālā（TJ）が派生説明を与えていることは，Eckel （2008, 65）, 斎藤明（2000; 2012）を通じてよく知られている．残念ながら，TJのサンスクリット原典は発見されておらず，チベット語訳を通じた派生説明は，非サンスクリット的であり，正確な理解は困難を極める．しかしながら，その派生説明を，パーニニ文法学体系に位置付け検討するならば，合理的に解釈可能である．TJの派生は，パーニニ文法学の視点から以下のように説明できる．