Jain Tark Bhasha

Author(s): Yashovijay Upadhyay,
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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Emperor, Akbar. Hari Vijaya's disciple was Kalyāna Vijaya. Kalyāņa Vijaya's disciple was Lābhavijaya. And rasovijaya's teacher Naya Vijaya was the disciple of Labhavijaya. A businessman, Dhanaji Suri, sent rašovijaya to Kāśi for higher studies in 1626 A.D. He made a special study of logic there and got the titles of Nyaya Visārada and Nyāyācārya. He himself says that he has written one hundred works. A list of seventy-two works of rašovijaya has been given by Pandit Sukhalal fi. Forty of these works are fully available, seven works are partly available and twentyfive works are not available at all. Out of these works written by rafovijaya, it would be noticed that sixteen works are on Jaina logic, out of which only eight are available today. Out of these Nayarahasya has been referred to in our text also (p. 29.6.8). Out of the remaining works, Nyāya-khanda-khādya is written on the style of Khandana khanda khădya and Astasahasrt urtti is a gloss on the Astasähasrt of Vidyānanda. Nyāyakhandakhādya deals with soul, emancipation, momentariness, origination, destruction, non-absolutism, class and individual, space and time, determinant concomitant and determinate concomitant etc. It mentions amongst others, Samantabhadra, Gandhahasti, Sammati, Mišra, Bhatta, Sridhara, Udayana, Narayaņācārya, Širomani, Didhiti-kāra Vardhamana, and Gunānanda. Similarly Asfasahasri-vivarana mentions Vacaspati, Mandana Mifra, Prajñākara, Hemacandra, Vakcakravarti, Vedānti-pašu, Kusumañjali, Gurumata, Muraribhatta, Murári, Miśra, Gautamiya, Bhattācārya, Jarannaiyāyika, Raghudeva Bhat ļācārya, Bhūşanasāra etc. This shows the comparative and critical outlook of Yasovijaya. It is remarkable that he wrote not only on Asfasahasri which is a work by a Digambara author, who has been criticised in our text also (1.2), but also commented upon a non-Jaina work, Yogasūtra of Patañjali. This indicates his non-sectarian approach. Another work is Nyāyaloka, whose contents are given as follows by Dr. Vidyābhūsana : soul, emancipation, inference, testimony, direct knowledge, indirect knowledge, validity of internal things, inherence, negation, ether, substance, etc. This work also refers
1. Faina Tarka-Bhāṣā, p. 30. verse 4. 2. Vidyābhūşana S. C. A History of Indian logic, p. 220. 3. Ibid, P, 219.