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Akalanka.
important work of Samanta-bhadra among his
voluminous writings. Siddhasena Siddhasena Divākara, a śvetāmvara (6th or Divakara. 7th century A. D.) wrote Nyāyāvatāra a short
treatise in verse on Jaina Nyāya. A commentary on this was written by Siddharşi ( 10th century A. D.) and Chandraprabha Sūri (12th century A. D.). Siddhasena's other works are Dvātrinsikā and Sammati Tarka the latter commented on by Abhayadeva Sūri ( 10th century A. D. ).
Haribhadra Sūri the author of ŞaddarśanaHaribhadra.
samuchchaya lived about 700—770 A. D.* Guņaratna ( 15th century A. D.) wrote a commentary of this work. . Akalanka Deva the great Digamvara writer developed in elaborate treatises the subject of Jaina · Nyāya philosophy. His Tattvārtha-rāja-vārttika, Aştaśati, Nyāya-viniśchaya, Lagbiya-straya, Pramāņa-sangraha etc. show the masterly way in which he handled this subject and all writers who followed
him, modelled their writings on his treatises. Manikyanandi. Māņikyanandi the author of Parikşāmukham was
the first writer who condensed the subject in the form of aphorisms taking materials from Akalanka's works. Many commentaries of Parikşāmukham the most famous among them being Prameyakamala-mārtaņda by Prabhāchandra and Prameyaratna-mālā by Ananta-virya came to be written and a large number of commentaries on Prameya-ratnamālā exist in manuscript form in many Jain libraries scattered throughout India. The work Parikšā
* "far af 81 FAT fhuiz" an article in Hindi published in Jain Sāhitya Sānsodhaka, Bhāga 1, Anka I,
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| SR No. | 004085 |
| Book Title | Parikshamukham |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Saratchandra Ghoshal |
| Publisher | ZZZ Unknown |
| Publication Year | 1940 |
| Total Pages | 362 |
| Language | Hindi, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 7 MB |