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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which goes in the name of Siddhasena: all these cannot be definitely attributed to S. Divākara. Likewise is the case of Bịhat-saņdarśana-samuccaya. The Pramāņa-Dvātrissikā claimed to have been composed by him possibly dealt with the Pramāņa of Kevalin, but it is not available. Devanandi refers to Siddhasena and the peculiarity of form attributed to him is traced in the Vedavāda-Dvātriṁsikā. Another Sūtra indicates that he was a grammarian. A work on Astrology is attributed to Siddha sena.
There are stray verses quoted from the works of Siddhasena which are not available today. Abhayadeva attributed to him a verse nayāstava etc. It is not found in the Dvā.s, but it is found in the Svayambhūstotra of Samantabhadra. Likewise, verses are quoted by Maladhāri Hemacandra, Prabhācandra, Simhakşamāsramaņa and some of them are quite worthy of Siddhasena. The contents and verses of the Dvātrimsikās etc. are tabulated(here).
Tradition attributes the Sanmati and Dvātrimśikās to Siddhasena; but JUGALKISHORE MUKHTAR postulates 3 Siddhasenas and attributes the Dvā.s differently. On the basis of the different views expressed in the Dvā.s, Siddhasena, the author of Sanmati, is a Digambara according to him and is not a predecessor of Samantabhadra. It is quite possible that in some Dvā.s Siddhasena follows the traditional view but in others a progressive view. This is quite natural in his intellectual development. Other scholars have put Nyāyāvatāra later than Dharmakīrti; but it can be shown that the Nyāyāvatāra is following earlier difinition and Siddhasena need not be put after Dharmakīrti. The authorship of the Nyāyāvatāra cannot be separated from that of the Sanmatitarka. The inconsistencies shown by Pt. MUKHTAR in the Niscaya-Dvā can be easily met with as is done by Pt. SUKHALALJI. The hypothesis based on parallelism in philosophy is often misleading
Pūjyapāda quotes a verse from the 3rd Dvā. Simhakşamāśramaņa refers to Siddhasena as an author of both the Sanmati and Nyāyāvatāra and quotes from his Pramāna-Dvā. Jinasena refers to Siddhasena both as a kavi and pravādi. It is a sad fact that Prabandhas about Siddhasena do not mention the Sanmati-tarka. From this it cannot be concluded that the author of the Sanmati is different from the author of Dvā.s.