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PREFACE
(First Edition)
Professor PETERSON, in his Fifth Report on the Search for Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Bombay Circle, mentions a Jaina Sanskrit work called Nyāyāvatāra by Siddha Sena Diväkara. A manuscript of this work, together with a commentary on it called Nyāyāvatāravivrti, was kindly procured for me from a private library in Bhāvanagara, Bombay, by the well-known Svetāmbara Sadhus, Sāstravisārada Jaināchārya Vijaya Dharma Sūri and Upādhyāya Indravijaya
Seeing that the Nyāyāvatāra is a very important work, being the earliest known Jaina treatise on Pure Logic, I have, in the present volume, attached the text of it with extracts from its verbose commentary.* I have also included in the volume an English translation which I prepared for the Journal of the Indian Research Society of Calcutta. The notes which I have added to elucidate the translation are based on the commentary already referred to.
I acknowledge with thanks that Mr. C. RUSSELL, M.A., Principal, Patna College, has kindly helped me with a number of suggestions while the translation was passing through the press.
My thanks are also due to RAI SARAT CHANDRA DAs, Bahadur, C.I.E., at whose instance I undertook this work, and who, at the suggestion of the Government of Bengal, forwarded its advance proof to the International Congress of Orientalists held at Copenhagen in August 1908. It was kindly accepted by that learned body as a contribution on the Jaina philosophical literature.
Satis CHANDRA VIDYABHUSANA.
Presidencey College
Calcutta: February, 1909.
* Instead of this, the entire Vivrti to given in this Volume, A.N.U.
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