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a work on Pramāṇaṣastra. + We also referred to the dialectical powers of Santisuri, bearing the titles of Kavindra and Vadichakravartin received from Bhima, and that of Vadivetala from Bhoja. He held controversies with the Kaula poet and dialectician Dharma of Bhṛgukachha who in his turn showed his mastery of that dialectical work the Tattvopaplava, and also with a Dravidian logician. We also saw that Santisuri had in addition to his thirtytwo students, one more student more brilliant than his thirtytwo named Muni Chandra of the Suvihita type. This Muni Chandra became a master - logician who trained the famous Vadi Devasuri-the author of the Pramāṇanayatattvālokālaņkāra and its commentary the Syādvādaratnākara-, and who defeated the famous Digambara dialectician Kumudachandra in an open debate held under the chairmanship of Jayasimha himself in his court. We shall refer to this incident later on.
We also referred to Abhayadeva known as Navāngī - ṭīkākāra. The visit of the Kashmiri poet Bilhana to Anahillapura, though of a short duration, is very significant. It is suggestive of the literary contact between Gujarat and Kashmira, and must have something to do with the ambition of Hemachandra to propitiate the Goddess of Learning who resided in Kashmira ( काश्मीरवासिनीं देवीम् ).
The following interesting information is given by JineSvara at the end of his Pramāṇalakshņa (Puratattva Vol. IV, pp. 83-84):
शब्दलक्ष्म प्रमालक्ष्म यदेतेषां न विद्यते । नादिमन्तस्ततो ह्येते परलक्ष्मोपजीविनः ॥ श्रीबुद्धिसागराचार्यैवृत्तैर्व्याकरणं कृतं । अस्माभिस्तु प्रमालक्ष्म वृद्धिमायातु साम्प्रतम् ॥
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