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THE JAINA GAZETTE leg. Man may be said to have made God in his own image, because the greatest part of the conception of God by man is obviously and naturally anthropomorphic i.e., an idealised, perfect and happy condition of actual, imperfect unhappy Man. This is a pretty way of enjoying truth and handling it for popular exposition. But in my humble opinion, the two ideas in their basic conceptions are poles apart. God is God and man is man and never the twain shall meet, except by the suppression or destruction of the one or the other.
Pramana-naya-tattvalokalamkara
and its Author. Pramana-naya-tattvalokalamkara literally means 'The Ornament of the Light of the true Nature of the Pramana and the Naya.' This remarkable treatise of the Jaina Svetambara school is the composition of the celebrated logician Deva-Suri. He is praised by various writers e.g., the author of Prabhavakacharitra, Ratna-prabha in his Ratnakaravatarika, Upadesa-malatika, by Mahesvara in his Avasyaka-saptati-tika, by Somaprabhu in his Jinadharma-pratibodha, by Udayaprabhadeva, by Pradyum nacharyya in his Samaraditya-Samkshepa, by Munideva in Santinatha-charitra, by Somachandrapandita in his Vritta-ratnakara-tika, by Merutunga in his Prabandha-chintamani, by Munibhadra in his Santinat ha-mahakavya, by Gunaratna in Kriyaratna-Samuchchaya, by Muni-sundara in Gurvavali and by Dharmasagara in Tapagachchha-pattavali. According to Dharmasagara, Deva-suri was born in the year 1134 of the Vikrama Era (A. D. 1078); was initiated in the Holy Order in 1152 (A. D. 1096); became the Suri in 1174 (A. D. 1118); and died in the year 1226 of the Vikrama Era (A. D. 1170), in the month of Sravana, on the 7th day of Vadi i.e., on the 7th day after the Full Moon. The author of Prabhavaka-charitra, however, says that Deva Suri was born in the year 1143 of the Vikrama Era (A. D. 1087). This seems to be obviously incorrect. The author of the Prabhavaka-charitra agrees with Dharmasagara in that Ceva Suri was initiated in the Order in 1152. Accordingly Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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