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1 The article is based on Dharmakīrti's Santānāntara-siddhi with Vinītadeva's commentary (tikā) thereon, translated into Russian by Th. Stcherbatsky from Tibetan, and further translated from Russian into English by H. C. Gupta and published in Papers of Th. Stcherbatsky in the Soviet Indology Series No. 2 (Calcutta: Indian Studies, Past and Present, 1969) under the general editorship of Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya. Since in spite of my efforts I have not been able to lay hands on the Sanskrit rendering of the Tibetan version (which till today remains the only available version), and since I have no knowledge of the Tibetan language nor for that matter of the Russian, I have had to exclusively rely, for my exposition and critique, on the English translation by H. C. Gupta. This situation naturally has its inherent limitations and shortcomings. However, my access to some of Dharmakīrti's other works which are available in Sanskrit helped me in following his essential argument contained in Santānāntara-siddhi. I am not however assuming that it can be a real substitute for one's direct access to the original text. All the references to Santānāntara-siddhi and the Vinītadeva's commentary are to the translation by H. C. Gupta.
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Kumar Sharma, R. Dharmakīrti on the existence of other minds. J Indian Philos 13, 55–71 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00208527
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