Indologica Taurinensia

Author(s): Colette Caillat, Siegfried Lienhard, Irma Piovano, Saverio Sani
Publisher: Comitato AIT

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PIOTR BALCEROWICZ
ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE NYĀYÂVATĀRA
AND THE SAMMATI-TARKA-PRAKARANA*
. 1. For last few centuries the Jaina tradition came to uncritically attribute such works as the Sammati-tarka-prakarana (STP), the Nyāyāvatāra (NA) and a number of Dvātrimśikās to one and the same author, namely to Siddhasena Divākara. A number of scholars raised doubts as to the authenticity of such attribution and, at least as far as the number of Dvātrimśikās is concerned, there is no doubt that some of them could not possibly have been composed by one and the same person, and certainly not by the author of STP. Despite the necessity to update it', a valuable resume of research heretofore done on Siddhasena Divākara is offered by UPADHYE (1971), who writes: 'Its (= Nyāyâvatāra's - P.B.) constitution (whether it had 32 verses), its authorship by Siddhasena (the author of the Sanmati) and consequently it's date have to remain open questions for a number of
: * The present contribution is a slightly modified version of my paper that was presented at the XI World Sanskrit Conference, Turin, April 3d-84, 2000 and referred to in BALCEROWICZ (2001b: 377) as 'forthcoming'. The major changes are incorporated in the latter part, $$ 6 ff., which contains my analysis of some arguments brought forward by Bansidhar BHATT (2000). The present contribution is a part of my research subsidised by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
1. Among recent contributions to the research on Siddhasena, we could list papers of: MOOKERJEE (1971), DHAKY (1981-82), GRANOFF (1989-1990), DHAKY (1995) and BHATT (2000), who while referring to various Jaina Prabandhas giving biographical accounts of Siddhasena, is silent on GRANOFF's (1989-1990) papers, as well BALCEROWICZ (2001a: iii-xl), (2001b).