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INTRODUCTION
(iii) SIDDHASENA AND OTHER JAINA ACĀRYAS.
To have some idea of the personality of Siddhasena, to gather some information about his age, to come to a pretty fair decision as to how far the authors succeeding Siddhasena drew upon his works, to say how far he was indebted to the authors preceding him, to say moreover something about the development of the problems discussed in the field of Indian logic at the time of Divākara wonld require a comparative study of the works of Siddhasena Divākara as well as the works of other scholars of Jaina religion and other Indian religions. This comparision cannot possibly be made in an exhaustive manner in this short introduction, At best we can compare some of the works of Divākara with a few works of other authors. What we aim at is suggesting a line of study in this particular field.
(a) Kundakunda and Umāswāti. In Jaina literature these two Acargas hold a very high place, as persons who were the pioneers in composing short treatises in Sūtra fashion. We do not know definitely whether Kundakunda composed any work in Samsksta or whether Umāswăti composed any works in Prākṣta'. We can say this much that Kundakunda was the first author in Jaina tradition who composed the most authoritative work in Prākṣta dilect, while Umāswāti was the first anthor who composed a treatise in Saṁsksta
1 The work Śrāvaka Prajnati is said to have been written by Umāswāti, But no conclusive proof is yet found for this statement
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