Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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PHILOSOPHIOAL WORKS OP THN JAINAS (91 probably also Mallavādin were contemporaries of Jayāpida of Kashmir (end of 8th century): It is owing to this commentary that the Jainas were interested in copying Manuscripts of the Nyāyabindu and the Nyāyabindutikā. Thus we are indebted to the Jainas for having preserved to us the Sanskrit originals of these important Buddhist works on logic, while the other Buddhist texts on logic have come down to us only in their Tibetan translations. .
I must refer the reader to Vidyābhūşaņa's book on the “Medieval School of Indian Logic" for the other Jaina authors and works on logic. I will only mention Deva Sūri (1086– 1169 A. D.) the author of the Pramānanayatattvālokālamkāra with his own commentary, called Syādvādaratnākara. He vanquished the Digambara Kumudacandrācārya in a dispute on the salvation of women which took place in 1124 A. D. Hemacandra also wrote a work on logic, the Pramānamīmāmsă in Sūtras with his own commentary. A. Jaina Jayasimha Sūri has written a commentary on the Nyāyasõra of Bhāsarvajña, a Brahmanical author who, however, was strongly influenced by Buddhist and Jaina logic. Even as late as the seventeenth century (between 1608 and 1688 ) we meet with a learned Svetāmbara Jaina Ya sovijay a Gani who wrote a great number of works onl ogic.
1 See Prof. H.ultzsch, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl.
Ges. 69, 278 f. 2 Soo 8. Ch. Vidyabhūşana in Journal of the Asiatic
Society of Bongal, N. 8. 6, 1910, p. 463 ff.