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BANERJEE: CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAIN LITERATURE
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Chronological Development of Jaina Logic (based on S.C. Vidyābhūşana's A History of Indian Logic including his dates)
compiled by Satya Ranjan Banerjee
Jain Logic
Buddhist Logic
Dates
by Centuries
Ancient Indian
Logic
B.C.
1500-900 B.C.
900-600
B.C.
Gautama Buddha (570-490 B.C.)
Origin of Indian logic in Vedic literature: knowledge, action and worship. Brāhmaņa, Āranyaka and Upanisad. Origin of ātma vidyā, | Mahāvīra Svāmi 'self-realisation
(599-527 B.C. or and its development 659-587 B.C.). The
birth of Jaina logic as can be gleaned
from Jain Canons. Origin of Anviksiki Indrabhūti Gautama Vidyā (650 B.C.) (607-515 B.C.) Birth of Indian logic: Cārvāka (650 B.C.), Kapila (650-575 B.C.), Dattatreya (650 B.C.) Punarvasu Ātreya Bhadrabāhu I (550 B.C.) Sulabhā (433-357 B.C.) (550-500 B.C.), Aştāvakra (550-500 B.C.). Medhātithi Bhadrabāhu II Gautama (550 B.C.) (1st cent. B.C.)
600-100 B.C
Origin of the Buddhist logic (490-76 B.C.)
Pali Tripitaka. Origin of different samghas. Suttanipāta, Vinayapitaka
A.D.
ist cent.
Nyāyasastra
Division of Svetāmbara and Digambara sects
Origin of Hinayāna and Mahāyāna (78).
Milinda Panha (100)
2nd cent. Akşapāda Gautama's
Nyāyasūtra (150) 3rd cent.
Umāsvāti/Umāsvāmi Nāgārjuna (250-320) (or 5th cent. A.D.)
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