Book Title: Mahavidya Vidambanam
Author(s): Bhatta Vadindra, Bhuvansundarsuri, Mangesh Ramkrishna Telang
Publisher: Central Library
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and the colophon of the aforementioned commentary runs as follows:
इति सारङ्गसुतवादीन्द्रशिष्यन्यायनिपुणतर्कविचारचतुर भट्टराघवविरचिते न्यायसारविचारे तृतीयः परिच्छेदः समाप्तः ॥
From these statements it is clear that Vádindra was the preceptor of Bhatta Raghava and that Vádîndra's proper name was Mahadeva. He was also called 'Sarvajna' well-versed in all the śástras.
Vadindra's date-Bhatta Raghava, Vádîndra's pupil, at the end of the aforementioned commentary gives the Saka year of its composition in the following verse:=
शके चतुःसप्ततिसंख्यके शतैः शताधिकैरभ्यधिके च पञ्चभिः ।
द्विघातितैस्तत्र बभूव वत्सरैः
ध्रुवं विचारः परिसाधि राघवः ॥
Now this verse can be interpreted in two ways:1 पञ्चभिः शतैः द्विघातितैः शताधिकैः अभ्यधिके चतुःसप्ततिसंख्यके शके = 500 x 2 = 1000 + 100 + 74 = Shaka 1174 (A. D. 1252 ) . 2 पञ्चभिः शतैः शताधिकैः द्विघातितैः अभ्यधिके चतुःसप्ततिसंख्यके शके
= 500 + 100 = 600 x 2 = 1200 + 74 = Shaka 1274 (A. D. 1352 ) .
The above two interpretations create a doubt as to the exact date of Bhatta Rághava. My learned friend Mr. T. M. Tripathi has provisionally accepted the second interpretation and fixed Bhatta Raghavá's date as A. D. 1352 relying on the circumstance that "Jayasimha sûri (who has also written a commentary (about A. D. 1366) on the Nyáyasára of Bhásarvjna) is described by his pupil Nayachandra-sûri (in his Hammira Kávya) to have defeated in a debate Sáranga who was a great logician and who can be safely identified
verse in the manuscript. But on going through the existing portion I found Vádindra referred to in the following passages:
1 मानमेयानुसारेण पञ्चधा न्यायदर्शनात् । वादीन्द्रादिमतेनापि व्याख्यातं तन्मयेदृशम् ॥ 2 वादीन्द्रशिष्यास्त्वाहुः Ditto leaf 39 3 तदुक्तं वादीन्द्रे:
यत्र यत्रास्मदादिष्टदूषणोद्धार संभवः ।
तं तं पन्थानमाश्रित्य व्यतिरेकी समर्थ्यताम् ॥
Manuscript leaf 33
Ditto leaf 44
1 This is quoted by Mahámahopadhyaya Satischandra Vidyabhusana M. A. Ph., D. in his Introduction to Bhásarvajna's Nyáyasára from a manuscript of Nyáyasára-vichára in the Queen's College Library, Benares.
2 See M. M. Satischandra's Introduction to Nyáyasára p. 7 (Biblio. Indica Edition).
Aho! Shrutgyanam
