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Nyaya: Svetambara works
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तर्कभाषा [Sehar' ) No. 6
Tarkabhāşā [ Jainatarkabhāņā )
1371. 1887-91.
Size.-- 104 in. by 4s in. Extent.-- 26 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, rough and white ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters; tolerably big, clear, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines and edges in two, in red ink; white paste used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; the title written in the left-hand margin at the top; fol. 1a blank except that the title and the author's name written there ; fol. 66 blank; condition very good ; complete ; the entire work is divided into three paricchedas (sections) as under:
Pramana-pariccheda I foll. 10 to 192 Naya
190 , 226 Nikṣepa- »
III , 226 , 26a Age.- Not modern. Author.- Nyāyaviśārada Yaśovijaya Gaņi. For his life and works
see my Sanskrit introduction (pp. 96-109 ; to Stuticaturvimsatikā published in the Agamodoya Samiti Series as
No. si in A. D. 1930. Subject.- This small work known as Jainatarkabhāṣā is composed
in Sanskrit. It is a master-piece elucidating three topics viz. pramāņa, naya and nikșepa. It is popularly known as Jainatarkaparibhāṣā, and it is composed after Nayarahasya of the same author. Various works are here referred to, by Yasovijaya, two of them being Siddhasena Gani's tikā
1 This should not be confounded with Jaipatarkabhāsā of Yaśasvatságara
referred to on p. 11. 2 For his ten works see pp. 15-16.
3 For a summary in Gujarati see Upodghăta (pp. 166-176 ) to 1917 situa t a 13 referred to on pp. 15-16.
