Atmatattva Viveka

Author(s): Udayanacharya
Publisher: Udayanacharya

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( 5 ) even with their immediate succesors, he was most intimately conversant with the more developed views of the school.
A few words may now be said about the authors of the text & the commentaries herewith published. The history of Udayana is already a familiar one & need not be dwelt upon at this place. He was one of the greatest savants in the Nyāya Vaišeşika School & marked the beginning of a new epoch in its study. He was probably an inhabitant of Mithilā* and lived in the tenth century A.D. (906 S'aka ie 984 A.D.). Besides the 2 works mentioned above, he also wrote (i) a commentary on Vāchaspati’s Nyayavartika.Tātparya ţikā, called Parisuddhi, (ii) Lakşaņāvali (iii) & Kiraṇāvali.
Sankara Miśra was also a Maithila Brahmaņa, being the son of Bhavanātha and Bhavānī, and wrote a number of works in Nyaya-Vaišeşika, Vedānta, Sahitya, &c. His works may be classified as below:
A.-In Nyaya-Vaiấeşika:-- (a) Commentary on Kaņāda's Sutras, called
Upaskara. (b) Commentary on Prasastapāda’s Padartha Dha
rma Samgraha, called Kaņādarahasya. (c) Commentary on Udayana's Atmatattva
viveka, called Kalpalatā (herewith published).
* He is sometimes believed to have been a native of Bengal and is identified with Udayana Bhāduri. Anachronism stands in the way of this theory being accepted as sound. Apart from this, wo have attempted to show from internal evidence available in the pages of the Nyåyakusumāñjali and the Bodhani by Varadarāja that Udayana was not a Bengali (ses Introduction to Nyāya-KúsumānjaliBodhani, pp vi-ix, Sarasvati Bhavana Texts, No. 4).