Jain Journal 1998 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL : Vol-XXXIII, No. 1 July 1998 hetu's trairūpya and pāñcarūpya repectively as its essential characteristics.
pramāņa-parīkşā is really the first composite and systematic work which expalins the complete Jaina epistemology and logic briefly.
The second commmentator of Akalanka was Anantavirya. There are four Anantaviryas referred to in Jaina literature, but he was the third Anantvirya who flourished during 950 to 990 A.D. and wrote commentaries on Pramāņa-samgrahaand Siddhiviniscayaof Akalanka. Commentary on Pramānasangraha is known as pramāṇasamgrahabhāsaya and commentary on Siddhiviniscaya is known as Siddhiviniscayatikā. pramānasamgrahabhāsyais not yet available, but its reference is found in the Siddhiviniscayatikā. It is an important commentary for understanding the development of Jaina thinking regarding episteniology.
Mānikyanandin (993-1053 AD) was the first logician who wrote an aphoristic treatise entitled Parikşāmukha which presents the Jaina system of epistemology in a nutshell. Prabhācandra a prominent philosopher wrote a voluminous commentary on it entitled prameyakamala-mārtanda Laghuanantavirya's prameyaratnamālā, Cārukīrti's prameyasatālańkāra and sāntivami's Prameyakanthikā are also famous commentaries on pariksāmukha All these commentaries depict the importance of this first aphoristic treatise of Jaina logic.
Vadirāja (1025 AD) was also a commentator of Akalanka. He wrote a commentary on Nyāyaviniscaya of Akalanka known as Nyāyaviniscayavivarana This is a big commentary comprising the size of twenty thousand Anustubh stanzas. It discusses the doctrines of several Indian philosophers like Kumārila, Prabhākara, Mandanamiśra, Vyomaśiva, Bhāsarvajña etc. and refutes them cogently. Other work of Vādirāja on Jaina epistemology is pramāna-nirņaya. It is an independent work on Jaina-nyāya. Vädirāja propounds only two types of parokṣa pramāņa as inference and testimony and includes recollection, recognition and reasoning as the subdivisions of inference.
Abhayadevasūri the commentator of Siddhasena's Sanmatitarka prakarang, was a disciple of Rājagacchiya Pradyumnasūri, Pandit Sukhalala Sanghavi & Pandit Becaradāsa Dosi have placed him during the second half of the 10th centrury and first half of the 11th century A.D. Pandit Mahendra Kumār Nyāyācārya considers him belonging to the last part of the 11th century of Vikrama Samvat, but he does not clearly say that who was earlier between Abhayadevasūri and Prabhācandra. It seems that Abhayadevasūri's commentary on