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on logic ? The same question may be asked about Kakud Sūri's Pārya work written in about 43 verses and named as Pañcapramanipañcaśıka and Pañcapramaņiprakäraņa in Jinaratnakoša (vol. I, p. 226).
This finishes a rough survey of Jaina works on logic! So I shall now say a few words about the remaining divisions of the - Jaina philosophical literature reserving their further treatment for " Preface” of Part II of this Vol. XVIII.
Works dealing solely with the nature and classifications of living beings forming one of the essential principles (tativas ) out of seven or nine, and works treating any one or more of the remaining principles occupy an important place in Jaina philosophy in general and metaphysics in special. Works on ontology such as Jivasamāsa, Jivānusasana, Jivaviyara etc. treat of the soul, the first principle whereas works named as Navatattvaprakarana in Sanskrit and Navatattapayarana in Prākrit along with their exegetical literature, deal with all the principles. Tativarthasütra, a monumental work of Umāsvāti represents the second group. This work is considered as authentic and claimed by both the sects of the Jainas. Not only is it furnished with an auto-commentary but it is expounded by both the Śvetāmbara and Digambara writers, so much so that this literature forms a great bulk of the philosophical literature of the Jainas, and it incidentally throws light on other Indian systems of thought.
1 In this connection I may note:
Mahāms hopadhyāya Satis Chandra Vidyabhugana has dealt with " Jaina logic" in A History of Indian Logic (pp. 157-224 ) published in A. D. 1921.
Pt. Sukhlal's paper" fra 5919 219 " in Gujarāti sent to the 7th Gujarati Sahitya Parişad, Bhavnagar ( 1924 ) is published in 1926 as pt. 6 on pp. 1-12, Muni Dhurandharavijaya's artiole 79 -19 at
f a " in Gujarati, deals with standard works on Jaina logio. It is published in " Jaina Satya Prakasa" (Vol. VII, Nos. 1-3, pp. 11-23).
A detailed exposition of Jaina logio in Hindi is met with in the introduction (pp. 10-25, 30-102,110-117, 119-125, 127, 134-140 and 142-145 ) to Nyāyāvatāravārtika-vrtti published in "Singhi Jain Series" in 1949 A. D. Pages from 110 onwards deal with the post-canonical period. Pages 25-30 and 163-110 are concerned with metaphysios. 2 A booklet in Hindi named as "a guztia
" by Mr. Dalsukhbhai Malvania is published by " Jain Cultural Research Society " Benares, in 1949 A.D.
3 See The Jaina Religion & Literature ( Vol. I, pp. 58-71 ).