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The object of the work:
न हौयं कविभिः पूर्वैरदृष्टं सूक्ष्मदर्शिभिः । शक्ता टणमपि द्रष्टुं मतिर्मम तपखिनी ॥ कस्तर्हि विद्यन् मतितर्कणीयग्रन्थोपबन्धे तव दोहदोऽयम् ।
न दोहदः पर्यनुयोगभूमिः
परोपदेशञ्च न तस्य शान्तिः ॥
राजा तु गह्वरेऽस्मिन्न शब्द के बन्धने विनिचितोऽहम् । ग्रन्थरचना विनोदादिह हि मया वासरा गमिताः ॥
Ahnika, VI, p. 394 ( VizSS.).
क्वचिदपि परनिग्रहस्य हेतौ हृदयपथं प्रथमं किलावतीर्णे । अपरमपि न कारणं विचिन्त्यं किमिव फलं खलु पिष्टपेषणस्य ॥ P. 658 (VizSS.).
The work is printed, ed. Gangadhara Sastrin, VizSS., No. 10, Lz., Benares, 1895 and translated into Bengali by Pandita Pañcanana Tarkavāgīśa, Calcutta University, Part I, 1940. In the preface to the edition of Nyayamañjarī in the Vizianagram Sanskrit Series, Jayanta is said to be the son of Candra of the Bharadvaja Gotra. His grandfather obtained the village of Gauramülaka after the performance of a sacrifice. He quotes from Vacaspati of the 8th century and is quoted by Gangeśopadhyaya in the 12th.
Jayanta (9th century, according to Keith ) wrote his famous book Nyayamañjarī, in jail (vide Satkari Mukherjee, Calcutta Review) interpreting the main themes of the Nyayasutra, the sixteen topics with pramaņa at the head in connection with the underlying sūtras, arranging them subject by subject in a novel plan. He is
