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Nyaya: Śvetambara works जैनविशेषतर्क
Jainavişesatarka [ Furgiquaest)
[ Syädvādamuktāvali ] No. 5
1899-1915. Size.-- 104 in. by 4} in. Extent.- 3 folios ; 14 to 15 lines to a page ; 41 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and grey; Jaina Devanāgari
characters; small, legible and very fair hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; edges of the first two foll. slightly worn out; condition good; complete so far as it goes; the entire work is divided into three stabakas the extent of each of which is as under:Stabaka I fol. ja to be
II foll. „, 26
III Age. - Old. Author.- 3Yaśasvat(sāgara), pupil of Yaśaḥsägara and a devotee of
Kalyāṇasāgara, Căritrasāgara and Vijayaprabha Súri of the Tapā gaccha. As stated by the late Himāṁśuvijaya in his Gujarati prastāvanā (p. 20) to his edition of Jaini Saptapadārthi, Yaśasvatsägara is the author of the following 14 works: -
(1) Vicāraşaţtrimśikāvacūri (17214), (2) Bhāvasaptatika (1740), (3) Jaini Saptapadārthi (1757), (4) Sabdārthasambandha (1758), (3) Pramāņavādārtha (1759), (6) Jainatarkabhāṣā, (7) Vadasamkbyā, (8) Syädvādamuktāvali, (9) Ma
namañjari,(10) Samāsaśobhā,(11) Gphalaghava vārtika (1760), 1-2 Both these names are mentioned by the author himself, one just in the
very first verse and the other, in the last verse. 3 In Samyat 721, he has con.posed a praśasti after having written a Ms. of
Kalpasūtra along with Kalpakiraṇāvali. For this Ms. see D. C. J. M.
( Vol. XVII, Pt. II, pp. 106-107 ). 4 This and other numbers mentioned against the works refer to the Vikrama
year of composition.
