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INTRODUCTION
Śrāvakācāra of Samantabhadra. From this Pandita Jugalkishor infers that this verse must have been borrowed by Siddhasena Divā kara from the works of Samantabhadra. His main argument is that the present verse occurring in Nyāyā vatāra does not fit in with the context and consequently, it must have been borrowed. Our critical study of Nyāyāvatāra has convinced us of the fact that the verse under discussion entirely fits in its place. As long as, therefore, stronger evidence to the contrary is not available we must suppose that both Samantabhadra and Siddhasena have perhaps borrowed the verse from a third source. Simply because the verse occurs in the work of Samantabhadra it would not be proper to say that it has been borrowed by Siddhasena or that the latter lived after Samantabhadra. Another verse of a similar kind is attributed to both Samantabhadra and Siddhasena. .
These two objections being thus explained away, we have no hesitation in placing Siddhasena in the fifth century of Vikrama era.
In this connection, it is interesting to see what sort of relation existed between Jinabhadragaại Ksamáśramaņa and Siddhasena Divākara. In the Viseşāvasyaka Bhasya and Višeşanavati of Jinabhadra a discussion
1 नयास्तव स्यात्पदलाञ्छना इमे रसोपविद्धा इव लोहधातवः ।
भवन्त्यभिप्रेतफला यतस्ततो भवन्तमार्याः प्रणता हितैषिणः ॥ The commentator of Sanmati - Abhayadava attributes this verse to Siddhasena while Mallisena the author of Syādwādamanjari attributes it to Samantabhadra.
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