Manorhita

Manorhita (also Manorata, Manūratha), twenty-second patriarch in the Chan list, is named in the *Jǐngdé Chuándēng Lù* as the disciple of Vasubandhu and teacher of Haklenayaśas^[1]. A figure of similar name—Manoratha—appears in northwestern Sarvāstivādin sources as one of the late commentators on the *Vibhāṣā*, and is mentioned by Xuanzang as having debated unsuccessfully against a brahmin opponent at the court of King Vikramāditya, dying of grief at the defeat^[2]. Whether the Chan patriarch is meant to be this same figure is uncertain.

The Chan account belongs to the legendary stratum of the late Indian lineage and is silent on the historical Manoratha's circumstances. Dumoulin treats the identification as plausible but unverifiable^[3].