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INTRODUCTION
comparison of Siddhasena with other Ācāryas for the following reasons :
1. The relative time of these two authors. 2. To see if any one of them has not influenced other, who was the third person or which was the atmosphere to influence them both equally. 3. Which was the greater scholar of the two and wbat is the comparative estimate of their activities. 4. What were the line which were followed by these two authors in making clear the Jaina doctrines and in establishing, the tradition of logic and how the subsequent Jaina Acāryas following the same lines developed the tradition of logic. 5. And how in spite of difference in tradition and locality, these two author remarkably agreed in their view-points as regards the Anekānta Vāda. How far have both taken the same line of thinking in defining Anekānta Vāda. "A clear discussion of all these points is really important.
Before undertaking a comparative study of these two authors we refer to some points which are noteworthy. In Jaina traditions only two Acāryas occupy a high place as the premier authors of Stuti. In Digambara tradition, Samantabhadra is regarded as the first of the Stutikāras, and according to Swetāmbara tradition no other anthor is so well-known as Siddhasena as a composer of Stuti. Not that all the work of these two authors are available at present. Some verses in the available works of these two authors are quite similar to one another and at other places there are sligat differences in them. For instance, the 9th verse of Nyāyāvatāra beginning with the words 'saia HOME 6977'.
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