Jain Journal 1998 07

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

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JAIN : CONTRIBUTION OF THE JAINA LOGICIANS TO INDIAN EPISTEMOLOGY 9 Sanmatitarka was written eariler than the works of Prabhācadra becuase the issues raised in the Tattvabodhavidhāyini (ţikā on Sanmatitarka) are found more systematic in the works of Prabhācandra.
The commentary Sanmatitarkatīkā also known as Tattvabodhavidhāyiniand Vadamahārņava explains naya, jñānaand jñeya at lenght. Abhayadevasūri was a well-versed commentator on Jaina epistemology. He has a penetrating view when he refutes the other systems. The second kända of his commentary mainly deals with epistemology.
Prabhācandra, a renowned Jaina logician, has contributed a lot by writing two voluminous commentaries entitled Nyāya-kumudacandra and Prameya-kamala-mārtanda prameya-kamala-mārtandra is a commentary on Parikṣāmukha of Māņikyanandin and Nyāya kumuda candra is a commentary on Laghiyastrayaof Akalanka. Pandit Kailasacandra Sastri places him during 950 to 1020 AD in the introduction to the first part of Nyāya-kumuda-candra and Pandit Mahendra Kumar Nyāyācārya has fixed him with a minor modification during 980 to 1065 A.D. Prabhācandra has given many new cogent arguments to refute the other systemes and to establish the Jaina philosophy. He has discussed the other systems' prima facie views (pūrvapaksa) and refuted them on logical ground. Although he is credited to have written some other works like Tattvārthavștti, Śākațāyananyāsa, Sabdāmbhojabhāskara, Pravacana-sarasarojabhāskara, Gadyakathākośa, Mahāpurāņa ţippaņa, Ratnākarandațika, Samādhitantraţika, Kriyākalāpaţika, and Atmānušāsanatilaka, but scholars have divergent opinions about the authourship of some of these works.
Although Prameya-kamala-mārtaņda comes under the category of a commentary, but it seems to be an independent original work. Prabhācandra has also discussed all the other systems in detail and has subjected them to devastating criticism.
In his other commentary Nyāya-kumuda-candra, Prabhacandra discussed some new topics and presented new arguments to establish the Jaina theory of epistemology. There is no doubt that he has explained all the aspects of pramāņa in a systematic and logical style in both the commentaries.
Like Mānikyanandin, a Digamber sect, Vadidevasūri was the first Śvetāmbara Ācārya who wrote an aphoristic treatise on Jaina logic entitled Parikṣāmukha, but somewhere or other Vādidevasūri differs from Māņikyanandin as on the topics of kevali-kavalā-hāra,