Parikshamukham

SR No.: 004085
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

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Deva-Suri
Hemachandra.
Later works on Jaina Nyaya.
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mukham received such a celebrity that Deva-sūri (11th century A. D.) wrote Pramāṇa-naya-tattvālokālankara with its commentary Syadvāda-ratnākara closely imitating the aphorisms of Parikṣāmukham and substituting merely synonyms in many of the aphorisms. Ratnaprabha-suri (12th century A. D.) wrote a commentary Syadvāda-ratnākarāvatarika to Syadvāda-ratnākara. Rājasekhara ( 14th century A. D.) wrote a Pañjika on Ratnaprabha's work and Jñanachandra (14th century A. D.) wrote a Tippana to the same.
The next great writer was Hemachandra who wrote voluminous works on almost every subject. His celebrated work Dvatrinsika on the model of Siddhasena's work has been commented on in detail by Mallişena (13th century) in a commentary entitled Syādvadamañjari in which different systems of Hindu, Bauddha, Chārvāka and other systems of philosophy have been reviewed and criticised. His famous work on Jaina Nyaya is Pramaṇamimāmsa a portion only of which has up to this date been discovered.
Many other more or less important works on Jaina Nyaya such as Nyāya-dipikā of Dharmabhuṣaṇa, Saptabhangitarangini of Vimala-dasa, Patraparikṣā and Apta-parikṣa of Vidyānanda, Pramālakṣma and Pramāṇa-parikṣā of Vidyānandi, Jainatarka-bhāṣā, Jaina-tarka-varttika, Naya-chakram, Naya-pradipam, Naya-rahasyam, Nayopadeśaḥ, Pramāṇa-nirṇayaḥ and innumerable glosses on the standard works and their commentaries already mentioned came to be written, but no new viewpoint was adopted by any of these later writers whose main object was to explain or amplify the view of older writers.