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On the Symbol
85 May this work, composed by the purity of faith, engendered by the unequalled favour of his service, when he, a noble teacher and scholar, Sri Vijayādisiṁha, who was like the sun in the sky of the spiritual lineage of the noble teacher and scholar, Sri Vijayādideva, has attained the throne of Indra, cause happiness and recreation amongst the groups of the learned. (1)
He, the most expert in the science of logic, who had received lore from Jitavijaya of lofty ideas as well as from the modest, learned teacher Nayādivijaya, and who had the wise Padmavijaya as his loving brother-has composed this treatise on Jaina logic. May it render pleasure to the reader.
Whatever merit I may have earned by composing this epitome of logic, may I attain the great wealth of the highest happiness thereby. (3)
On whom previously, the scholars in Kāśi had conferred the title of 'expert in logic and who, when he had composed a hundred works, was awarded the degree of the 'ācārya of logic'; he, Yasovijaya, an infant -pupil of the learned Nayādivijaya, has related this knowledge at the request of the disciples. (4)
