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(80) जैनी तो उनकी प्रशंसा करते ही हैं इसमें कुछ आश्चर्यभी नहीं, हैं. किंतु अन्यमती विद्वानोंके शिरोमणि भी प्रशंसा करें यह आश्चर्य अवश्य देखिये, महामहोपाध्याय डाक्टर सतीशचंद्र विद्याभूषण क्या कहते हैं.
“The Jaina literature was in the begining purely religeous in charector but did in course of time undergo wonderful developements not only in religeous but in other departments as well. In the departments of Logic and Metophysics it attained the very highest developement and methods. There are not many Metaphysicians in India like Umaswami who flourished in the first century A. D or many logicians like Siddhasena Devaker of the 6 th and Akalanka Deva of the 8th century A. D. The Nyayavatara of Siddhasena Divakar condenses the whole of the Nyaya Philosopby within the space of 32 slokas. The Nyaya Philosophy as founded by the Brahmanic sage Gautama, was a medley of Logic, Metaphysics and Religion. Logic as a pure science would have been an impossibility but for the Jainas and the Buddhists who took up the study of Nyaya in right earnest from about 400 A. D. While editing and translating several works on Jaina Nyaya such as the “Nyayavatar” “Pariksha mukha sutra” “Nyaya dipika &. &. I was struck with the accuracy, precision and brevity of their system of thinking and noticed with admiration how the old system of Nyayaphilosophy was gradually developed into its present form by the Jaina Logicians The large number of these Jaina Logicians compiled works on Nyaya, and constituted the most valuable works on the Nyaya system in the middle ages. What is known as the medieval
school of logic is purely the work of Jaina and Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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