Jain Journal 2007 10

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

Page 10

SatyaRanjanBanerjee:Contributionsofthe JainstotheVaiseșika Philosophy
Jaiminiya, Buddhist and Saiva systems, and explains the six Daršanas as these four plus the Sāṁkhya and Lokāyata systems. It is difficult to say how far this interpretation is correct; but the six Darsanas referred to by Somnadeva seem to be identical with the six Tarkas enumerated by Rājasekhara in Kūvvamimaisā (Chap-2), viz. the Jaina and Buddhist Darsanas and the Lokāyata forining one group, and the Sāmkhya, the Nyāya, and the Vaišeșika forming another group.
dvidhā cānvikșiki purvottara-pakşābhvām/ arhad-bhadantada sane lokavatan ca pulvah pakyah / Samkhyan Nava-Vaisesikau cottarah / ta ime şaf tarkā) //
It is probable that this classification of the Darsanas was popular in the tenth century, the age of Rājasekhara and Somadeva. It may be noted in this connection that the Darśanas seem to have been variously classified at different epochs : for example, in Vāvupurāņa 104. 16 the six Darsanas are stated to be Brāhma, Saiva, Vaiṣṇava, Saura, Sākta, and Arhata, i.e., Jaina. Similarly in Jñānārņavatantra 16.131134 we find mentioned the Saivadarśana, Sāktadarśana, Brāhmadarśana, Vaisnavadarśana, Sūryadarsana and Bauddhadarśania. Certain points relating to some of the systems criticised by Somadeva require further elucidation”.
At the end of the 13th century (to be exact 1292 A.D.), Mallişena's work Svadvādamanjuri, though a commentary on the 32 verses of Hemacandra's Anvayoga-vvavacchedikā, is at the same time an independent philosophical work which frequently criticises the other systems like the Sunyavāda of the Buddhists. Mallişeņa completed the work in collaboration with Jinaprabha Sūri.
Almost at the same time in a recently published booklet, Sarvasiddhānta-praveśaka (2004) in prose by an unknown author edited by Muni Jambūvijaya speaks about the different systems of Indian philosophy, such as, Nyāya, Vaišesika, Sāmkhya, Bauddha, Mimāmsā, Lokāyata and also Jaina. The date of the work is uncertain, but, on the basis of a MS dated Vir saivat 1201 (=1258 A.D.), the