________________ PREFACE OF THE GENERAL EDITOR The Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute has great pleasure in offering to the world of scholars the second volume of the Tibetan Sanskrit Texts Series - Dharmottarapradipa of Durveka. This work also deals with Buddhist Nyaya like its predecessor, Pramanavartika-Bhashya of Prajnakaragupta, and is also like that work, being published for the first time i Sanskrit from the photographs of a single MS. preserved in Tibet and brought to India by Sri. Rahula Sarkrityayana and kept in the Bihar Research Society. It is hoped that its publication will facilitate the studies and researches in Indian logic in general and Buddhist logic in particular. The present edition gives not only the text of Dharmottarapradipa of Durveka, but also of Nyayabindutika of Dharmottara, of which it is a commentary, and of Nyayabindu of Dharmakirti, which is the original work commented upon by Dharmottara. The past-mentioned two works have been published already more than once, but they also have been included in the present edition, as otherwise the Dharmottarapradipa of Durveka would not have been easily intelligible. There was an additional reason for including the text of the Nyayabindutika; two new and better MSS of that work had become available in the MSS Library of Jesalmere and we were in a position to utilise them for the new edition. In ancient and medieval India knowledge and scholarship were not narrow or compartmental. Hindu, Buddhist and Jain philosophers and logicians were studying, understanding and criticising where necessary, the views and theories of one another. The views of Buddhist Dignaga were criticised and commented upon by Hindu philosophers like Udyotakara and Kumarila and the Jain thinkers like Mallavadin ; these in their turn were reviewed by Dharmakirti in his Nyayabindu. Dharmakirti in his turn was criticised by Hindu philosophers
