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A fragment. Leaves 12-19. The MS. is called Bhāsāparicchedaţikā.
7933. 925. न्यायसिद्धान्तमुक्तावलौप्रकाश Nyāyasiddhānta
muktāvalīprakāśa. By Mahādeva Dinakara, son of Bālakrsna Bhatta of the
Gotra of Bharadvāja. Substance, country-made paper. 12x 5 inches. Folia, 65. Lines, 13 on a page. Extent in slokas, 3,250. Character, Nāgara. Appearance, tolerable. Prose. Generally correct.
It contains the Pratyakşa pariccheda only. See No. 99 (a complete copy) and also No. 918 from Upamiti to the end. See also IO. Catal. Nos. 2112-16.
Hall's statement in his contributions, p. 74, regarding the joint authorship of the commentary by father and son, is apparently based on the verse, which occurs at the end of the work. The verse runs :
भानुं प्रणम्य परिभाव्य च शास्त्रसारं
मुक्तावलौकिरण एष पिटप्रदिष्टः। सद्यक्तिभिर्दिनकरेण करेण सोऽयं
ata: galtucat afarat esan But it cannot be taken to mean, as Hall thinks, that “ Bālakṣsna commenced this work, entitling it gerafafanu and was unable to finish it, and that it was completed by Mahādeva Bhatta Dinakara, his son, who gave it the further name of Muktāvalīprakāśa.” In this verse, however, he simply, out of reverence to his father, gives him the entire credit for the work, saying that all this was taught by his father, and that he himself only gave publicity to it. Further in the opening verse he says, " aremtą gal
A fa qual faglyplafo...aga ”, that is, he writes this commentary on Siddhāntamuktāvalī, learning from his father's lotus-like face all the various tenets.
As for Muktāvalīkiraņa, it may well be taken simply as a figure of speech, the work Muktāvalī being a pearlnecklace and the commentary its lustre.
The work is well known as Dinakarī. Printed, ed. Jiv., Calcutta ; N.S. Press, Bombay; ChSS., Benares.
