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respect1. For this classification as found in Ŝlokavārtika he has no authority in Digambara works such as Sarvarthasiddhi and Rajavārtika, which are the bases of Ŝlokavārtika. Indeed, he is the first author in Digambara tradition to make a classification of Nayas in this manner. The discussion of Vidyananda as regards the Naigama Naya as being a separate Naya and as regards the number of Nayas as being seven instead of six2 seems to have been directed against Siddhasena's doctrine of six Nayas; for in the works Digambaras there is no acceptance at all of the doctrine of the six Nayas. It may be that the discussion of the Nayas made by Vidyananda has for its inspiration the discussion in Nayacakra3, but at the same time it must be acknowledged that the whole of this discussion is influenced by Siddhasena's works. The classification and discussion of Saptabhangi has been no doubt influenced by Nayacakra and other works of Mallavādi and of others no doubt, but in this Vidyananda seems to be influenced by the scholarly discussion of Saptabhangi in Sanmati. It is not necessary to prove that Vidyananda was a close student of Sanmati for even a cursory reader of the works of Vidyananda would at once understand it.
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(g) Śilanka, Vadivetāla-Śānti-Śuri & Vādi-Deva.
These three süris were the Students of the works of Siddhasena, and they had copiously drawn upon
1 See Tattvärtha Sloka Vartika 1. 33. 3.
2 Verse 17 to 25 of 1, 33 Tattyartha Śloka-Vārtika p, 269. " तद्विशेषाः प्रपश्व ेन संचिन्त्या नयचक्रतः । १।३३।१०२ ।
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