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3. CAKRADHARA'S NYAYAMANJARI-GRANTHIBHANGA, ed. by Dr. Nagin J. Shah: Pages 20+277: Price Rs. 36.00.
The Nyāyamañjarī of Jayanta of the 9th century A.D., though formally professing to be a commentary on the Nyāya system of Logic, is, in fact, an independent work embodying views not only of the Nyāya system but also of its rivals, viz., Buddhism and Mīmārsā. The style of the composition speaks plainly of maturity and its language is lucid. Its only extant commentary is the present text which attempts to elucidate difficult points, the author's date being the 10th-11th centuries. The work has been well edited and printed.
B. THE SYSTEMS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY by the late V. R. Gandhi, ed. by Dr. K. K. Dixit : Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay, 1970 : Pages 45+148 : Price Rs. 5.00
It consists of lectures on the Sārkhya, Yoga, Nyāya, Mīmārsā, Vedānta, Buddhist and Jaina philosophical tenets, delivered to general American hearers when the late author went to that country to represent Janism at the World Congress of Religions held in Chicago in 1893 (which, incidentally made Svami Vivekananda famous). Because it was intended for lay audiences, these discourses are necessarily lucid and brief. The edition has been enriched by a critical Introduction by Dr. Dixit as well as by a large number of penetrating and revealing foot-notes appended by him to the text of the late lecturer.
C. The three bulky volumes mentioned below are published in its Jaina Agama Series by Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay, ed. by Muni Punyavijayji, Pt. Dalsukh Malvania and Pt. Amritlal Mohanlal Bhojak.
1968 :
1. NANDISUTTAM AND ANUOGADDARAIM : Pages 11+54+70+127+22+467 : Price Rs. 40.00.
The volume begins with an extensive Introduction in Gujarati, followed by another in English, further augmented by a long Editor's Note in English on the method and apparatus used in editing the texts. Next is given in Hindi a long table of contents of the texts. Then come the two texts themselves, finally rounded up by several appendices dealing with indexes to different kinds of the contents.
The treatment presents an enormous mass of scholiasts' pedantry accumulated through generations, which may be of interest to
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