Nirgrantha-1

SR No.: 522701
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 342
Language: English, Hindi, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Nirgrantha, & India
File Size: 10 MB

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M. A. Dhaky
Nirgrantha
vitti. Now no longer. He is currently preparing a case necessitating a modified view on the date and authorship with his characteristic and profound epistemological insights to which I cannot pretend. We must await to read his brilliant erudition on the problems under discussion which can give a final seal to, and vindicate what has been argued in this article.
Notes and References:
1. Opinions differ on his date. I am here using my own determination. 2. Two editions of the Nyāyāvatāra with this commentary are available. The details of these
publications are as follows: i) Ed. S.C. Vidyabhusana, Nyāyāvatāra (First edition), Calcutta 1909; (Second Edition),
Sacred books of the Jaina Society, Arrah 1915. Also incorporated in A.N. Upadhye,
Siddhasena's Nyāyāvatāra and other works, Bombay 1971, pp. 30-107. ii) Ed. Pt. Bhagwandas Harakhchand, Nyāyāvataraḥ, Ahmedabad 1917. The Tippaņa of Devabhadra is included in this edition. The text alone has been published alongwith
Divakara's other works in JDPS, Bhavnagar 1909. 3. Pra mālakṣaṇam, Ahmedabad 1927. 4. Ed. Pt. Dalsukh Malwaniya, Nyāyāvatāravārtika-vrtti of śrī Sānti Sūri, (with 'Introduction
and 'Annotations' in Hindi), Singhi Jania Series [No.20), Bombay 1949. 5. No manuscripts of this work are available in Digambara libraries. However, a reference
to a commentary on this work by Sumati, supposed to be a Digambara scholiast of c. late 8th century A. D., is known. And citations from this work also figure in several pre
medieval and medieval commentaries of the Digambara authors. 6. In his opening verse 4. 7. This figures in the opening verse of the commentary : (Malwaniya, p. 11). 8. In his opening kārikā of the Vārtika (Ibid., pp. 5 and 11). 9. Ibid., p. 13. (Naityaha-'siddhasenārkasūtritam-iti / Siddhasena eva jagaj=jantu- manomoha
santatitamasitamah samuh=apoha-kāritvat arka iva arkah tena sūtritam). 'Arka' here is not
in the sense of 'Diväkara' but 'essence.') 10. Ibid., p. 107. 11. "Śrī-Siddhasena Diväkara-nā Samaya-no Praśna” (Gujāratī), Bhāratiya Vidya, Pt. III,
Bombay 1945. 12. "Prastāvana," Nyāyāvatāra., p. 141. 13. "Upodghāt," Dvātrimsaddvātrimsikāh, Ed. Vijaysuśīlasūri, Botad 1977, pp. 15-17.
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