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generally known as Jarannaiyāyika Vrttikära of the Nyāyasūtra.
Jayanta derives his origin from a Bengali Brahmin family (vide Introductions, Vizss., Chss., and C.U. edns.).
7533.
821. RETETT: 1 Nyāyasāra.
By Bhā Sarvajña.
Substance, country-made yellow paper. 18 x 4 inches. Folia, 14, Lines, 5 on a page. Extent in slokas, 260. Character, Bengali. Appear. ance, fresh. Incomplete.
It is an epitome of the Nyāya doctrine in three paricchedas. It does not admit upamāna or analogy as a proof by itself. Bhā Sarvajña lived c. 900, according to Keith (vide Dasaratha Śarman, IHQ).
See L. 727, 10. 1864 and Bik. 541.
The manuscript comes thus to an abrupt end :
sfagiaffa um ga otra ac cfa ufahafarmers: 1
JEL The book is printed, ed. Bib. Ind., 1910, by Mahāmahopādhyāya Dr. Satīšacandra Vidyabhūşaņa. Guņaratna in his commentary on şaddarśanasamuccayavrtti speaks of eighteen commentaries on Nyāyasāra. The editor says that the author belonged to Kāśmir Saivism which was founded in the 9th century A.D.
The work has been translated, into English by Prof. Deodhar, Poona, 1922.
