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Kavyanusasaan his novel Tilakamanjarī, and appeals to his patriotism by saying "Shall a foreigner-a Kaula-defeat Dhārā ?" Dhanapāla returns from Satyapura (Sachor in Rajputana) and defeats Dharma who accepts his superiority by saying that there is no body who is Dhanapāla's equal. Dhanapāla asks him to visit Säntisūri of Anahillapura. Dharma at his sugggestion starts for Gurjaradesa ( Pr. Ch. pp. 238-244). He comes to Anahillapura and meets the great logician Șāntisūri in an open debate. The arguments that Dharma puts forth were taken from the Tattvopaplava * a dialectical work showing that nothing is provable and nothing is knowable. ( The author of this work is one Jayarāshibhatta.) Srī Sāntyāchārya answers all his arguments and Dharma accepts him as his superior, and as a wonderful logician. He says "A man like Dhanapāla would not tell a lie. You are really a learned man” (Ibid. pp. 221-222).
This Sāntisūri appears to be a great figure in the intellectual and literary world of Gurjaradeşa and Mālava. The Prabhāvakacharita devotes a whole chapter to this dialectician and poet (It may be remarked here, in passing, that in the culture of ancient India, Logic and Poetry were not divorced from each other). According to it he was born in a village known as 'Unattayu' to the west of Sri Pattana, the present day Una near Radhanpura. His father was a rich man of the Srimāla family and bore the name of Dhanadeva. His mother's name was Dhanaşrī. He was known as Bhīma. Vijayasimha, seeing his
* A Palm-leaf ms of this work was first discovered by Pandita Sukhalalji and Pandita Bechardas from a Bhandar at Patana. An edition of this work by Pt. Sukhlalji and tbe present writer is under preparation.
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