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PREFACE
When I was reading for my Doctorate in the years 1961-63, I bad an opportunity to consult the Nyāyamañjari and to study some portion of it. My guide was Dr. Pt. Sukhlalji. It was he who initiated me to the Nyāyamañjarī. Then in the year 1972 I
tunate enough to find the manuscript of the Nyāyamanjarigranthjbba nga of Cakıadhara (10th century A. D.), the only available commentary on the Nyāyamañjali. I critically edited it with elaborate foot-notes and introduction. This provided me an opportunity to study closely the entire Nyayamanjari. This opened before me the treasure of Indian philosophy. I made up my mind to translate the Nyāyamañjari into Gujarati, my mother tongue. This translation up to the vinth ābpika has already been published. At last, I thought it worthwbile to prepare a chapter-wise study, in English, of the Nyayamañjari. The present book is the result of ibis resolve. It contains the study of the first chapter of the Nyāyamañjari.
The author of the Nyāyama ñjari is Jayanta Bhatta, a Kashmiri pundit deeply learned in the traditional systems of Indian philosophy. He, flourished in the reign of King Sankarayarman (A. D. 885-902). His great-grand father was a minister of King Lalitāditya (A. D. 750). And Abhinanda, a son of Jayanta, is the author of Kādambarikarbāsāra.
Bhatta Jayanta's three works have so far been recovered and published. They are Nyāyak alika, Āgamadambara and Nyayamañjari. Nyayakalikā is a short commentary on the Nyāyasūtra. Agamadambara is a Sanskrit drama. And the Nyāyamañjari, though a commentary on the Nyāyasūtra, is of the pature of an independent Nyāya work.
Jayanta's Nyāyamañjari is one of the three invaluable jewels of Indian philosophy, the remaining two being Dharmakirti's Pramānavārtika and Kuparila's Slokavartika. If we acquaint ourselves with these three mature philosophical works written during the period between the 7th and 9th centuries A.D., the golden
