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Nyaya: Śvetambara works
नयकर्णिका टीकासहित
Nayakarņikā
with tīkā
747.
No. 7
1899-1915.
Size.— 111 in. by s in. Extent.- (text) 4 folios ; 2 to 4 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line.
„ - (com.), „ ; 12 „ „„„; 46 » » » » Description.- Country paper tough and greyish ; Jaina Devana
gari characters; this is a gre Ms.; both the text and the commentary written in bold, small, legible and very fair hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in red ink; all the foll. worm-eaten in several places; condition tolerably fair ; both the text and the commentary written in Sanskrit, the former in verses, and the latter in prose; both complete ; fol. 46 practically blank ; for, only the title, etc.
written on it. Age. - Samvat 1954. Author of the text.- Vinayavijaya Gani who pays respect to
Vijayasimha as if he is his guru. This Vinayavijaya is a celebrated author of Lokaprakāśa which is looked upon as a Jaina encyclopædia. Amongst his other works may be mentioned Kalpasubodhikā (see D. C. J. M. Vol. XVII, pt. II, pp. 139-152 ).
Vinayavijaya died in Samvat 1738. His father's name was Tejapāla and that of his mother Rajasri.
, of the com.- Gambhiravijaya, pupil of VỊddhivijaya. Subject.— The exposition of the seven nayas as a metrical compo
sition together with its elucidation in prose in Sanskrit.
For an exposition of the nayas in English see Epitome of Jainism (p. 78-102 ), Outlines of Jainism (pp.112,
116 and 117), English introduction ( pp. lxviii-lxxxv ) Jaina... 3
