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At present I'm studying the occurrences of a Cārvāka/Lokāyata stanza in Buddhist and Jain texts. The stanza corresponds to Haribhadrasūri's Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya 81:

etāvān eva loko'yaṃ yāvān indriyagocaraḥ |

bhadre vṛkapadaṃ paśya yad vadanti [a]bahuśrūtāḥ ||

It occurs in other texts according to different variants. Apparently the older Sanskrit version is preserved in Candrakītri's Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya where we read:

etāvān eva puruṣo yāvān indriyagocaraḥ |

bhadre vṛkapadaṃ hy etad yad vadanti bahuśrūtāḥ ||

Of all the sources in which this stanza occurs, I unfortunately don't have at my disposal the following two:

  • Jinabhadra's Svopajñavṛtti auto-commentary on his Viśeṣāvaśyakabhāṣya: Malvania, Dalsukh (ed. by). 1966-1968. Acārya [sic] Jinabhadra's Viśeṣāvaśyakabhāṣya with Auto-Commentary (3 Parts), Ahmedabad: Bharatiya Sanskrit Vidyamandira. The stanza occurs twice in Part/Vol. 2, pp. 344 and 439.
  • Hemacandrasūri's Ṭīkā commentary on Jinabhadra's Gaṇadharavāda: Vijaya, Ratnaprabha and Dhirubhai P. Thakar (ed. by). 1950. Kṣamāśramaṇa Jinabhadra Gaṇi's Gaṇadharavāda: Along with Maladhārin Hemacandra Sūri's Commentary. Ahmedabad: Sri Jaina Siddhanta Society. The stanza occurs once, p. 10.

I therefore ask you if someone can help me by replying to this message with the three Sanskrit versions (if in transliteration, please with diacritical marks) of the stanza as they appear in each of these three occurrences.

Thanks in advance and have a lovely day!

kr

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