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1 SIDDHASENA DIVAKARA
Siddhasena. When, therefore, Maladhārī says that some views in Bhaṣya are adopted from Siddhasena he may be considered as perfectly reliable in his statement. At any rate, it seems quite clear that though Jinabhadra was an opponent of Siddhasena in some points and though he has contradicted Siddhasena in those points, which in his opinion went against the scriptures, he has accepted, with a broad mind which is characteristic of him, sound views of Siddhasena that do not go contrary to Scriptures; and thus he has respectfully acknowledged the debt he owed to Siddhasena. The views that are thus adopted by Jinabhadra from Siddhasena are two :
(a) the first is about the number of Nayas and
(b) the second is as regards Nikṣepa as well as the vearieties of Nayas.
(a) Gatha No 2264 supposed by the commentator to be Niryukti deals with the seven as well as the five varieties of Naya. Now Siddhasena (San. 1. 4, 5) begins to count the Nayas from Sangraha and thus mentions only six kinds of Naya. In the gatha mentioned above in the Bhāṣya, however, Jinabhadra has not mentioned six kinds of Naya but incidentally at other places he has also acknowledged the sixfold divisions of Siddhasena.
The inclusion of Nayas beginning with Sangraha Naya in Nikṣepa is found made in Bhāṣya in Gathā No. 75. Elsewhere, in Nayadwara (Gātbā No. 3586) the Nayas are discussed with the Sangraha Naya being first mentioned. But in many other places (Gatha 2181 etc.) they are mentioned as beginning from Naigama Naya. It seems obvious that following the ancient traditions of the
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