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JAIN JOURNAL
The publication of this important work thus raises more questions than it solves. Now that a completely edited text is in their hands, it would be possible for appropriate expertise to solve some of the questions raised above and many others that may come up.
There appears to be a controversy about the commentator Gunaratna because there have been at least three authors with the same name. The editor is of opinion that the commentator of Sasadhara's work must have been a monk belonging to Tapagaccha who is attributed with a deep knowledge of Tarkasastra or Navya Nyaya and the reviewer feels that there is no reason to refute this claim. Gunaratna wrote commentary on four chapteșs of Nyāyasiddhāntadīpa and not on the whole of it. Gunaratna is the celebrated author of Tarka-Tarangint in which with the catholicity of the Jaina monks, he noticed not only the leaders of Nyaya from the West Coast which was his own region, but also of those from Mithila and Bengal.
The monograph is undoubtedly a valuable addition to the available literature on Navya-Nyaya.
-K. C. Lalwani
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