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4 DW TRIMSIKAS OF SIDDHASENA
In the 12th Dwa, Nyaya-Dargana is referred to: Sankhya doctrine is mentioned in the 13th; Vaiseṣika doctrine in the 14th; and all the Bauddha systems of philosophy such as Šūnya-Vāda and others are referred to in the 15th Dwa. These Dwa, as printed, at present, are extremely incorrect and it is very difficult to make out anything consistent from them. However, this much is clear that these Dwa. merely mention the principal tenets of these systems of philosophy, they do not aim at refuting them. Dwa. dealing with ancient Indian logic testify to the profound study of this system on the part of Siddhasena. Looking to the Dwa, dealing with Sankhya doctrine it seems that the author must have before him Sankhya works other than the Kārikās of Iswara- Kṛṣṇa, for the number of Pramanas as found in the Kārikās of Iswara-Kṛṣṇa and the definition of Pratyakṣa found therein is not at all found in this Dwa.
Cf. Karika 3 with Dwa. 13. 5.
From the Dwa. describing Bauddha doctrines, it seems that the author was an intimate student of not
only the Sunya-vāda works such as the Madhymika Karika of Nagarjuna, but he also had studied critically other Bauddha-works of Vijñāna-Vāda in a critical way.
In the 10th Dwa, the preachings of Jina are given. In it the two varieties of Dhyana-Arta and Raudrathat lead a man to worldly life are mentioned and two other forms of Dhyana (that of Dharma and Śukla ) that lead a man to liberation are also referred to; but even here the description is influenced by Śwet śwatara2
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2 Dwa 10. 23, 24.
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