Atmatattva Vivek

Author(s): Udayanacharya, Vindheshwariprasad Dwivedi, Lakshman Shastri Dravida
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
introduction. It is to be regretted that this introduction did not come into the Society's possession and that no traces of it have been found.
In the absence of the original editor and his successors, and without access to any information concerning the materials on which this edition is based, only few and general details concerning it, extracted from the work itself as printed, can be given.
The Work
This is an important Nyāya treatise in refutation of the Buddhist conception of ātman. The author, Udayanācārya, his approximate date (about 1000 A.D.), and his other works are well-known.
Vidyabhusana, in his History of Indian Logic analyses the present work as follows:--
'It proposes to refute four Buddhistic theories in order to establish a permanent soul. The four theories are:
(1) K şaņa-bhanga, that everything is momentary, (2) Bāhyārtha-bhanga, that things possess no external
reality, (3) Guna-guni-bheda-bhanga, that a substance is not
distinct from its qualities, and (4) Anupalambha, that the world is void.
The book is divided into five sections of which the first four are concerned with the refutation of these theories, while the fifth concerns itself with the establishment of a permanent soul.'
Editions
The following editions have been traced:
(1) Jayanarayana Tarkapanchanan and Madanmohan Sarman (Text only). Calcutta, 1849. Copy consulted.