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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
SYADVADAMUKTAVALI OR JAINAVISESATARKA
masāgaragani, the pupil of Hiravijayasūri. The writing was completed on V.S. 1721, śukla 8, Srāvaņa. Cf.
प्रणम्य प्रणताशेषवीरं वीरजिनेश्वरम । स्ववाचनकृते कुवें कल्पव्याख्यानपद्धतिम् ।। शिष्येण कल्पकिरणावलिनामवृत्तिव्याख्यानवाचनकृते च लिपीकृतेयं । 977491aprates FOHET ( 1721) fa (3) za शुक्लाष्टमीशुमदिने नमसः श्रिये (5) स्तु।। श्रीकल्पसूत्रटीकापुस्तं पुण्यार्थमात्मनः पूर्णम् ।
लिखितं यशस्वत्सागरगणिना सुखकारणं कृतिनाम् ।।' He must have studied Logic and Nyāya philosophy. His thorough grasp over Nyāya in particular may well be inferred from his exposition of the tenets of Nyāya in simple but lucid language. His works—Bhāvasaptatikā, Grahalāghavavārtika and Yaśorājapaddhati-lead us to infer that he also studied Astronomy and Horoscopy
He has referred to Karmagranthas, Kairavākarakaumudio, Tattvarthasūtralo, Tarkasaṁgrahall, Navatattvagāthā12, Pramānanayatattväloka 3, Ratnākarāvatārikā?, Syädvādamañjarīls as well as to Samantabhadrado, Siddhasena Divākara!?, Haribhadra18 etc. He has also quoted lines from Anyayogavyavacchedadvātrisikāpadya (by Hemacandra) 9 Punyadhanakathā20, Prameyaratnakośa21, Vitarăgastotra22, Şadāvasyakabhāşyagāthô23 etc. His vast reading, thus, is unambiguously evident.
The author himself has declared his indebtedness to Vādidevasūri, Cf.
स्याद्वादसुखबोधाय प्रक्रियेयं प्रतिष्ठिता। विचाराम्बुधिबोधाय देवसूरिवचोनुगा ॥24
6. Kapadia, H.R., Cat., Vol. XVII, Part II(a), Poona, 1936, p. 103. 7. Ibid, p. 107. Dr. K. P. Jog, (Centre of Advance study in Sanskrit, Poona),
who examined this MSS. at my request, writes to me that the MSS. is carefully written in uniform characters. This indicates that the author's hand
writing must have been quite good. 8. Cf. JS pp. 14, 19.
9. Cf. JS p. 4. 10. Cf. JS pp. 14, 15.
Cf. JS P. 24. 12. Cf. JS pp. 12, 13, 14, 15. 13. Cf. JS pp. 16, 21, 22, 23. 14. Cf. JS p. 28. 15. Cf. JSM IV. 11. 16. Cf. JSM IV. 40. 17. Cf. JSM IV. 39. 18. Cf. JSM III. 5; JS p. 25. 19. Cf. JS p. 26.
Cf. JS p. 14. 21. Cf. JS p. 30. 22. Cf. JS p. 27. 23. Cf. JS p. 15. 24. Cf. JSM IV. 44.
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