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scholars who signed a nirnayapatra issued in Kāśī in 1657 (cf. be
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In addition, the Nyāyasiddhāntamālā, a commentary in the broader sense on selected sūtra-s of adhyāya-s 1 and 5.2 of the Nyāyasūtra, 46 written in the second half of the seventeenth century in Kāśī by the Bengali Jayarāma Nyāyapañcānana,147 a student of Rāmabhadra Sārvabhauma, 148 remains to be examined. 149 Jayarāma Nyāyapañcānana's signature appears as the 74th name on the already mentioned vyavasthā- or nirnayapatra issued in 1657 in Kāšī;150 he also contributed to the Kavīndracandrodaya." A further unexplored, still not edited commentary is the Mitabhāșiņī by Mahadeva Bhattācārya of the last quarter of the seventeenth century, of which several manuscripts are preserved;152 Mahādeva, son of Vāgīśvarācārya and Bhāgīrathī, wrote this commentary at the request of a certain Someśvara Bhatta. He may have been a Vedāntin and also author of the Sānkhyavsttisāra. 53 Only after these available materials have been taken into consideration will our broad picture of the commentarial literature on the Nyāyasūtra from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, their authors and their contexts, become more complete, ready to be filled in with further details gained from additional sources.
145 Cf. Gode (1943: 136), Bhattacharyya (1945: 94-96) and Upadhyaya (1994: 87). 146 Cf. Shastri (1928: (1)(5), (9)-(10)); see also the characterization in Chakravarti (1929: 230) and Mishra (1966: 438). 147 Cf. Chakravarti (1915a: 283) and Kaviraj (1982: 94-95); according to Kaviraj, the work was composed in 1693. 148 Kaviraj, followed by Shastri (1928: (17H18]), identifies Jayarāma's teacher with Rāmabhadra Siddhāntavāgāśa, the grandson and student of Jagadīša (Kaviraj, 1982: 94, 89-90). However, Bhattacharyya has clearly shown that this Rāmabhadra must be Rāmabhadra Sārvabhauma because Jayarāma refers to the latter's Nyāyarahasya ascribing the quoted passage to guravah (cf. Bhattacharyya, 1945: 96-97; cf. also Mishra, 1966: 435, 437). 149 The work refers to the Nyāyabhāsya, the Nyāyavärttika, the Tatparya ikā and Vardhamana's Nyāyanibandhaprakāśa and Tattvabodha; Udayana may be referred to by ācāryāḥ. Jayarama also mentions the Bhāskara (cf. n. 37 above) and Sānātani (cf. n. 33 above) once. 150 Cf. Kaviraj (1982: 152); Shastri (1928: 19); no. 68 in the list as presented in Gode (1943: 138), no. 31 in Upadhyaya (1994: 87). 151 Cf. Gode (1943: 138) and Upadhyaya (1994: 85). 132 Cf. Kaviraj (1982: 103). 153 CE Kaviraj (1982: 103, 154). Gaurinath Sastri, relying on the Navadvipamahimä, mentions still another Vrtti on the Nyāyasūtra written in the niiddle of the eighteenth century in Navadvīpa, by a certain Sivarāma (cf. Sastri, 1968: 518). However, this work has not yet been discovered.