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Nyaya: Svetambara works
margin; edges of the Ist fol. slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete; there is an extra portion of . three lines of some work probably Bhagavatísütra, preceding this Nyāyāvatāra ; this Ms. contains an additional work viz. Kamalastaka beginning on tol. I" and ending on the
same; it, too, is complete. Age.-- Pretty old. Author.-Siddhasena Divakara. He is said to be an author of
Namo'rhat. See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. 3, p. 276). The authorship of Sakrastava in Sanskrit is ascribed to him. See my edition of Bhaktāmara, Kalyä amandira and Namiuņa. Pūjacaturvimśatikā, a work in Prakrit is also ascribed to him. This work is published in Jainasatyaprakāśa (vol. V., No. II, pp. 382-383). For a discussion in Gujarati about his life and works see prastāvanā
(pp. 35-82) of Sanmatiprakarana. Subject.-- Exposition of logic from the Jaina view-point. This is
the ist work on Jaina logic available at present. Begins.-fol. 1 बहवे उसिणजोणिया जीवा य पोग्गला यषणस्सइकाइयत्ता एवं
कमं विचयंति उववज्जति एवं खल गोयमा गिम्हास बहवे वणस्सइकाइया पत्तिया पुष्फि(प्फि)या ॥ ॥७शते १३ कहण्णं भंते अकम्मस्स गती पंगो णिस्संगताए णिरंगणाए गतिपरिणामणं बंधणा त्येयणां याए णिरंबंधणताए ।
पुज्वप्पयोगेणं अकम्मस्स गती ॥ ॥ . "- (text) fol. 10 ए0॥ .
प्रमाणव्युत्पादनार्थमिदमारभ्यते॥ प्रमाणं स्वपराभासि । ज्ञानं बा(धोविवाजितं । प्रत्यक्षं च परोक्षं च । विधा मेयविन(निश्चयात ॥१॥ प्रसिद्धानि प्रमाणानि । व्यवहारश्च तत्छतः ।
प्रमाणलक्षणस्योक्तौ । ज्ञायते न प्रयोजनं ॥२etc. Ends. - fol. 16
प्रमाता स्वान्यनिर्भासी । कर्ता भोक्ता विवृत्तिमान् । - स्वसंवेदम(न)संसियोनीः क्षित्यापनात्मकः ॥३१॥
