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Preface
There is an incomplete work in Sanskrit in verse edited at the end of Devabhadra (c. Saihvat 1139 to 1158) Sūri's Kaharayanakosa. Its editor has named it as Pramånaprakasa by taking into account its third verse. In v. 8, it is said that the omniscient take food, and women attain salvation. So this is definitely a Svetambara work. It may be that its author may be Devabhadra Suri just referred to.
There is a palm-leaf MS. of Devabhadra's Pramanaprakasa at Patan.' It is noted by him in his Sijjamsacariya and by Siddhasena Sūri in his com, on Pavayanasaruddhara.
Turning to the Digambara writers, Kundakunda (whom Kalyäņavijayaji assigns to the fifth or sixth century A. D. ! ) has given us various works in Paiya ( Präkrit ). He has dealt with transcendental and conventional views and applied them to soul. Saptabbangt sometimes confounded with syadvada, is dealt with by him in his work Pañcatthikayasära.
Samantabhadra almost a contemporary of Siddasena Divakara, is well-known for his Apta-mimarsa. His two hymns viz. Svayambhastotra (a panegyric of the 24 Tirthankaras from Rşabha to Mahāvira ) and Yuklyanusasana are philosophical in nature, and the latter may have inspired Hemacandra to compose two dvatrimsikas here dealt with as Nos. 107 and 116.
Leaving aside Trilakşaņa-kadarthana, an extinct work of Pātrakesarin, Laghiyasiraya of Akalanka and Parikşamukha of Māņikyanandin along with their corresponding commentaries viz. Nyayakumudacandra and Prameyakamalamartanda are some of the important Digambara works on Jaina logic.
3Siddhantasara, a difficult work on logic by a Jaina writer is mentioned by Rajasekhara Suri in his Şaddarśanasamuccaya (v. 29 ) along with Astasahasri and Nya yakumudacandrodaya.4
As stated in Pattavali-samuccaya (pt. I, p. 190) Kakka Súri, successor of Siddha Súri and predecessor of Devagupta Sari (c. Samvat 1072 ) is an author of Pañcapramana. Is this a work
1 See Jinaratnakośa (Vol. I, p. 208 ).
2 This is utilized by Vadin Deva Sari. He has however added two chapters viz. naya-pariccheda and vāda-pariccheda, and has thus made his work more com propensive than this Parīkøāmukha.
3 Is this a Digambara work? Even if so, what is the name of its author ? 4 See" Anekānta" (Vol. I, p. 258 ).