Yasastilaka and Indian Culture

SR No.: 001609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 566
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Story, Literature, & Culture
File Size: 16 MB

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YASASTILAKA AND INDIAN CULTURE
In the same work (1. 32 under verse 15) the Yājñika is said to reject Jaina notions such as those concerning Samvara, Nirjarā and Mokşa.
Statements such as those of Somadeva and Udayana help us to understand the character of the schools of thought current in their age. It may be added that Udayana refers also to the Tautātitas or the adherents of the Bhätta school of Mimāṁsā at the beginning of his commentary on the Prasastapāda Bhāsya and to the Prābhākaras in Nyāyakusumāñjali (Chap. 3), mentioning in this connection a Gauda Mimāṁsaka, who is identified with the Pañcikākāra in Varadarāja's commentary Kusumāñjalibodhani. The Pañcikākāra is Śälikānātha, the wellknown author of Prakaranapancikā, an important work of the Prabhākara school of Mimāṁsā; and to judge from Udayana's sarcastic remarks about him, he might be the former's contemporary and, if so, lived in the tenth century. Udayana refers also to Bhāskara's interpretation of the Vedānta in Nyāyakusumāñjali (chap. 2), showing that Bhāskara's Brahmasūtra Bhāsya, now almost forgotten, was current in his time. Going back a few years earlier than the tenth centur we come across Jayanta's Nyāyamañjari, which also reveals a world of thought full of variety and covering a comprehensive range of intellectual activity Jayanta refers to contemporary sects like Saivas, Pāśupatas, Kaulas, Pāñcarātras, and Saṁsāramocakas (chap. 4); and throughout his work he records and criticises the views of diverse schools of thought such as Bhāţtas, Prābhākaras, Vedāntists, Buddhists, Sámkhyas and Cārvākas, and noteworthy doctrines like Jñānakarma-samuccayavāda, Šabda-brahmavāda etc.
Apart from the schools of thought enumerated by Somadeva and Udayana, the tenth century saw also a revival of Nyāya and Vaiseşika studies, as witnessed by the works of Bhāsarvajña,* Vyomasiva, Udayana
1 'संवरे निर्जरायां मोक्षे च तदसत्त्ववचनं याशिकस्य विपर्ययः' 2 See Introduction to Kusumāñjalibodhani, ed. G. N. Kaviraja. Varadarāja remarks :
गौडो मीमांसकः पञ्चिकाकारः। गौडो हि वेदाध्ययनाभावाद् वेदत्वं न जानातीति गौडमीमांसकस्येत्युक्तमिति, p. 123. Varadaräja has been assigned to about the eleventh century. Salikānātha is referred to in a verse of the allegorical play Prabodhacandrodaya of Kršņamiśra composed towards the end of the eleventh century: * uetää.......799TEI 7 faizi......
IP HET Puti...... Act 2, verse 3. The author of the Candrikā commentary on the play states that Mahodadhi was a fellow student with Mālikānātha and a writer of the Prabhakara School: metafuara TRIFTIAI(1)#Tagar The Warnerat. See
N. S. edition. 3 'ब्रह्मपरिणतेरिति भास्करगोत्रे युज्यते' 4 See S. C. Vidyabhusan: History of Indian Logic, p. 358.
Vyomaśiva's date is circa 950 A.D. See Hindi Introduction to Pt, Mahendra Kumāra's edition of 4147275, P. 120.