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Introduction
1159 or A.D. 1102. He was a pupil of Jayasimha Sūri, and preceptor of Dharamaghcșa. He wrote another logical treatise, called Prameya-ratna-kosa,1 and a philosophical treatise called Darsanaśuddhi, otherwise called Samyaktva-prakaraņa. He was a great logician, and in controversy appeared as a lion before opponents, who resembled elephants.2 In the introduction to his Nyāyāvatāravivrti he has quoted the Buddhist logicians, Dharmottara and Arcața, and in the concluding lines has craved the mercy of Jina.
1 Jaināgama List, Bombay, p. 77, and Peterson's Third Report on Sanskrit MSS., Appendix, p. 9.
2 तीर्थे वीरविभोः सुधर्मगणभृत् संतानलब्धोन्नतिश्चारित्रोज्ज्वलचन्द्रगच्छजलधिप्रोल्लासशीतद्युतिः । साहित्यागमतर्कलक्षणमहाविद्यापगासागरः श्रीचन्द्रप्रभसूरिरद्भतमतिर्वादीभसिंहोऽभवत् ॥ १॥ (Dasavaikālika-tīkā Tilakācārya, noticed in Peterson's Fifth Report p. 65.)
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