Nyayamanjari Granthibhanga

SR No.: 002637
Original Sutra Author: Chakradhar
Author: Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1972
Total Pages: 312
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 18 MB

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INTRODUCTION
Critical Apparatus This edition of the commentary on the Nyāyamanjarı of Jayanta is based on two manuscripts - one containing the commentary upto the sixth ahnika only and the other containing the commentary on the remaining ahnikas only. Let us describe these two mamuscripts one by one.
o This is a palm-leaf manuscript.1 It belongs to Jesalmera Bhaņdāra. It contains the commentary upto the sixth ahnika only. It is numbered 386 in the Catalogue prepared by Late Muni śrı Punyavijayaji. It consists of 186 folios. Nearly 18 folios are missing and some are broken. All the rematning folios are in good condition. The handwriting is uniform and beautiful. The size of the manuscript is 32.7 cms. x 6.25 cms. Each side of the folio has 5 or 6 lines and each line has 60 letters, As this is only the first half of the whole manuscript it does not contain the normal colophon which always occurs at the end of manuscripts. Of course, at the end of every ahnika there occur the words : bhattaśrıśankaratmajaśricakradharakrte nyaya. manjarlgranthibhange... It is unfortunate that the second half of the manuscript is lost to us. The manuscript belongs to c. 13th century of the Vikrama Era. g. This is a paper manuscript. It belongs to the Bhandarkar Oriental
88 Research Institute, Poona, It bears the No.
Its size is 29 cms.
of 1873-74 x 21.5 cms. The copyist has written on one side of the folios. It consists of 61 folios. Folio No. 25 is missing. The letters not being uniform the lines on the written side vary from 18 to 38 and the letters per line from 22 to 29. There is no colophon at the end of the manuscript. But at the end of every ähnika there occur the words : bhaffasrišankarātmajafricakradharakste nyāyamañjarigranthibhange...Thus these words are identical with those that are found at the end of every ahnika in so manuscript. Though the manuscript is not dated it seems to have been written in the 18th or 19th century A. D. It is noteworthy that this manuscript contains the commentary on the last six ahnikas (i.e. from 7th to 12th) only. The script of the manuscript is not quite legible. Moreover, the manuscript itself is very corrupt. Of the two this manuscript has been noticed by Aufrecht in his Catalogus Catalogorum.
Author of the Commentary The author of the commentary on Jayanta's Nyāyamañjari, which is called Nyāyamañjarigranthibhanga and which is now being published for 1. The photocopy of this manuscript has been used for this edition,