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INTRODUCTION. There is an excellent commentary on the NyâyâCandra-prabha vatâ ra, called the Nyâyâvatâra-vivrti Sûri, author of
Nyāyāyatára- by Candra-prabha Sûri, who also vivști (2)
belonged to the Svetârnbara sect and founded the Purnimâ Gaccha3 in San vat 1159 or A.D. 1102. He was a pupil of Jayasimha Sûri, and preceptor of Dharamaghoaa. He wrote another logical treatise, called Prameya-ratna-koșa, and a philosophical treatise called Darsana-suddhi, otherwise called Samyaktva-prakaraņa. He was a great logician, and in controversy appeared as a lion before opponents, who resembled elephants. In the introduction to his Nyâyâ vatâra-vivrti he has quoted the Buddhist logicians, Dharmottara and Arcata, and in the concluding lines has craved the mercy of Jina.
* See Peterson's Fourth Report, p. xxvii, and Peterson ?, xvi. In the Nya yavata ra-vivrti itself there is no mention of Candra-prabha Sûri. I found somewhere that he was the author of it. The authorship of the Nyâyâvatâra-vivști must, however, for the present remain an open question.
* Sec Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar's Report, 1883-84, p. 147.
Vide Jain â gama List, Bombay, p. 77, and Peterson's Third Report on Sanskrit NISS., Appendix, p. 9.
'तीर्थे वीरविभोः सुधर्मगणभत् सन्तानलब्धोन्नतिश्वास्त्रिोज्ज्वलचन्द्रगच्छजलधिप्रोल्लासशीतयुतिः । साहित्यागमतर्कलक्षण महाविद्यापगा सागरः श्रीचन्द्रप्रभ सूरिरद्भुतमतिर्वादीम सिंहोऽभवत् ॥ १ ॥ (Dasavalkalika-tîka by Tilakâcârya, noticed in Peterson's Fifth Report, p. 65.)
