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FOREWORD
With great interest and pleasure I have glanced through the following pages written by Siddhantachārya Pt. Kailasa Chandra Sāstri. The work is devoted to a careful study of some important problems of Jain Nyaya Sāstra and sums up the teachings of ealrier authorities. In the Přisthabhumi prefixed to the work as an Introduction he has surveyed the entire field including teachers like Akalarka, Kunda Kunda, Umāsvāti, Samantabhadra, Siddha Sena, Pātra Kesari, Vidyananda, Hema Chandra, Yasovijaya and others.
Serious students of Indian philosophy are well aware of the brilliant part played by Jain Logicians in their polemics with Hindu and Buddhist Logicians in ancient and medieval India. Pt. Kailasa Chandra's book will be a valuable and reliable guide to a serious student of Jain Logic and Philosophy in the earlier ages. The work as it appears before us is the result of immense labour on the part of the author and discloses in him a critical grasp of the subject and a power of fair presentation.
I hope it will be read with interest and profit not only by Jain students but also by scholars interested in the history of the evolution of Indian thought in general.
2/A, Sigra, Varanasi 10. 8. 1966.
-Gopinath Kaviraj,
M. A., D. Litt. Mahāmaḥopādhyāya, SahityaVāchaspati, Padma Vibhushana.
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