Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

SR No.: 003992
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Siddhasena Divakar, Vinayvijay, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal
Publication Year: 1971
Total Pages: 376
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 24 MB

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Siddhasena and his Works
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tioned by Jinasena in his Adipurāņa, dated 783 A.D. He was a pupil of VỊddhavādi, and given the name Kumudacandra at the time of ordination. He had the Linga of Rudra split at Ujjayini in the Mahākāla temple by reciting the Kalyāņa-mandira-stotra. He is believed by Jainas to have converted Vikramāditya to Jainism 470 years after the nirvāṇa of Mahāvīra, i.e., in 57 B.C. This Vikramāditya is possibly identical with Yasodharmadeva, king of Malwa, who according to Alberuni defeated the Huns at Korur in 533 A.D. This is confirmed by Hwen-thsang. Moreover Varāhamihira, one of the nine gems at the court of Vikramāditya, lived between 505 and 587 A.D. Siddhasena is no other than Kşapaņaka. Then follows a detailed analysis or exposition of the contents of the Nyāyāvatāra.
4. DAYACHANDRA GOYaliya: Jaina Hitaisī, 1X. 3, pp. 123 ff. Bombay 1913. He deals with Jaina Nyāya (in Hindi) and gives a neat summary of the Nyāyāvatāra. (Only some portions were seen by me. So it cannot be said whether he has mentioned any source of his.)
5. JINAVIJAYA: Jaina Hitaisī, Vol. XII, Bombay 1916. pp. 22f. Siddhasena mentioned by Haribhadra in his Dharmabindu is not a Jaina. But Siddhasena referred to by both Jinasenas is the same as Divākara, a vādin and a poet. He is referred to in the Amoghavstti. He is the author of Sanmati, Stutis, Nyāyāvatāra and Kalyāņamandira. The sampradāya never came, in early days, in the way of appreciating the merits of authors of other sampradāyas.
6. N. PREMI: Jaina Hitaisī, Vol. 14. Bombay 1920, pp. 102-3. It is pointed out how Vādirāja, in his Pārsvanāthacarita, refers to Sanmati who wrote a commentary on the Sanmati. He seems to be identical with Sumati of the S. Belgo? inscription who wrote the Sumatisaptaka.
7. JINAVIJAYA: Siddhasena Divākara Aur Svāmi Samantabhadra, Jaina Hitaişī. Vol. XIV, Bombay 1919; also Jaina Sahitya Samsodhaka, I, i, pp. 6-20, Poona 1920.
Siddhasena Divākara and Samantabhadra have been eminent exponents of Pramāņa śāstra of the Jainas in the Svetāmbara and Digambara traditions respectively. Siddhasena, according to the Jyotirvidābharaṇa, was one of the nine gems of Vikrama's court. Here, more than historical a comparative study of Siddhasena and