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or tho first part from the Tarkaprakása. Another commentary on the work is by Srikrishnanyâyavâgîsabhattacharya, of the Sabdakhanda of which No. 747 is a copy; and No. 742 is a small fragment
of a third entitled NyâyaratnâBhâsbâparichchheda vali. The Bhâshậparichchheda and commentaries.
by Visvanathapañchânana is another manual which is always studied along with the Siddhantamuktavali, a commentary on it by the author himself. There are two copies of the first, (Nos. 288 and 727), and one of the second, (No. 292), in our collection. Another work of this nature is the Padârthamâlâ of Jayarâ mapañchânana, of which we have a fragment, (No. 753). Of the smaller manuals the Tarkasamgraha is
the one generally studied. It The Smaller Manuals. has a great many commentaries Tarkasarugraha and
" of which we have two, the commentaries.
Tarksangrahadipikâ, (No. 738), attributed to the author of the manual himself, and the Tarkachandrikâ by Vaidyanatha Gadgila, (No. 736). The Tarkâmrita of Jagadisa, the Saptapadârthî of Sivaditya and the Tarkabhâshâ of Keśavamiśra are similar works; but the last follows the system of Gautama. On the first there is a
commentary called TarkâmritaTarkamrita and com- chashaka by Gangârâma Jadi mentaries.
who was the son of Narayana, pupil of Nilakantha, and son of the daughter of Dinakara the author of the Muktâvalîprakâśa, a commentary on the work of Visvanatha noticed above. No. 277 is a commentary on this Chashaka, apparently by the author himself, without the original. Gangârâma states that his work was looked over by his grandfather; (O., Appendix II.). Another commentary on the Tarkâmțita entitled the Tarkâmritatarangiņî is in my collection for 1879. The Padarthachandrika by Seshậnanta, of which we
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