Dharmottar Pradip

SR No.: 004317
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Kashiprasad Jayswal Anushilan Samstha
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 380
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 7 MB

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xxviii INTRODUCTION according to Vidyabhushana.The name of this work indicates that it is devoted to the summary exposition of the Nyaya-bindu. It is not available in original Sanskrit. Its Tibetan translation by Surendrabodhi, an Indian Pandita, and Ye-sesha-sde, a Lama, is available. (Stan-hgyur-mdo, CXI. 4.). 7. Sub-commentaries of Nyaya-bindu : 1. The Dharmottara-tippana by Mallavadi.-Mallavadi has. composed a Tippana on Dharmottara's commentary on the Nyaya-bindu. Its MSS. are available in the Jaisalmer Bhandara and the Patan Bhandara. At the end of the first chapter of these MSS. there is only a sentence like 'लघुधर्मोत्तरटिप्पणके प्रथमः परिच्छेदः / ' But at the end of the second and third chapters there is the name of Mallavadi far H e zrufafad aasfetque feat: qfo: समाप्तः / ' 'इति श्रीधर्मोत्तरटिप्पणके श्रीमल्लवाद्याचार्यकृते तृतीयः परिच्छेदः समाप्तः / ' It can, therefore, justifiably be maintained that this Tippana is composed by Acharya Mallavadi. The mangalacharana in the beginning of the work includes the words like future la preserved in the MSS. Though: the word for is used by the Buddhists, we cannot say definitely that the author Mallavadi was a Buddhist, since 'the Buddhist tradition does not mention any Acharya bearing the name Mallavadi. Jaina tradition however mentions more than one Mallavadi. Hence it is possible that the author may be a Jaina Acharya on the assumption that the word Jina can also mean a Tirthankara. There is a famous Jaina Acharya named Mallavadi, the author of the Naya-chakra. According to the traditional account, his date is 884 Vira-samvat, i.e. 357 A.D. But such an early date is impossible. Hence Dr. Vidyabhushana argues that the year 884 in which Mallavadi lived does not refer to Vira-Samyat, but to Vikrama or Saka-samvat. On this supposition Mallavadi lived according to him either in 827 A.D. or in 962 A.D.3 1 History of Indian Logic, p. 340. 2 'जिनान् ससुगतान् जिनसंवरावतारं Bodhichuryavatara. 3 History of Indian Logic, p. 195.