Jnanasrimitra And His Work

Author(s): Anantlal Thakur
Publisher: Anantlal Thakur

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JNANASRIMITRA AND HIS WORKS (J. B. R. s. kirti and Prajnakara. Sankara's Atmatattvavivekakalpalata extensively quotes passages from the Kasabhargadhyaya and the Sakarasiddhi. The Ksanabhangadhyaya has been utilised by Madhavacarya in the Sarvadarsanasanagraha. Among the Buddhists, Ratnakirti has summarised the Ksanabhangadhyaya, Vyapticarca, Apohaprakarana and Isvaravada respectively in his Ksnabhangasiddhis (I and II), Vyaptinirnaya, Apohasiddhi and Isvara sadhanadusana. Again Ratnakirti's Sarvajnasiddhi seems to be based on the Yoginirnaya and the Sarvajnasiddhi of Jnanasri. His Citradvaitaprakasavada presupposes the Sakarasiddhi of Jnanasrimitra. Moksakara of Jagaddalavihara also quotes Jnanasrimitra as an authority in his Tarkabhasa. * The Jaina logician Vadi Deva quotes our author several times and as we have seen before refers to the Apohaprakarana by name in his Syadvadaratnakara. Devabhadra quotes him. It may be noted in this connection that our author is to be distinguished from Jnanasribhadra of Kasmira, who wrote the Pramanaviniscayatika now preserved in Tibetan translation. Whether our author wrote any commentary on any of the works of Dharmakirti is not known. But his elaborate exposition on the seven verses of the Promanavartika dealing with the refutation of God and his upholding the views of Dharmakirti and Prajnakara justify his claim that he has made the position of both free from undeserved attacks arfaqs775475 fanta Tu feefari. Io Vadivinoda, p. 554