Mahavidya Vidambanam

Author(s): Bhatta Vadindra, Bhuvansundarsuri, Mangesh Ramkrishna Telang
Publisher: Central Library

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all these reasons we must conclude that Vádîudra lived during the reign of the king Srisimha alias Singhana of Devagiri about A. D. 1210 to I247.
Vadindra's Works-Now let us make an enquiry as to what works were written by Vádindra. He has not referred to any of his other works by name in his Mahavidya-vidambana. But at the end of the book he observes "other kinds of faults falling under the heading of particular Arthántaratá affecting particular Mahavidya syllogisms will be set forth in another place."1 Bhuvanasundara in his commentary on this passage says that "in another place" means "in another book.". Thus it is clear that Vádîndra had also written another work criticizing the Mahavidya syllogisms in detail. But it cannot be traced.
Vádindrás pupil Bhatta Raghava has quoted the following verse under the name of Vádîndra in the commentary of Nyáyasára of Bhásarvjua without mentioning the name of the work from which it was extracted:
तदुक्तं वादीन्द्रः
यत्र यत्रास्मदादिष्टदूषणोद्धारसंभवः। तं तं पन्थानमाश्रित्य व्यतिरेकी समर्थ्यताम् ॥
___Manuscript of Nyayasāra-vicharas leaf 44. As this verse is not found in the Mahavidya-vidambana, it must have been taken from some other work of Vå dîndra on logic. 1 येतु महाविद्या विशेषनिष्ठाः भङ्गिविशेषेण अर्थान्तरताविशेषाः, तेऽन्यत्र व्युत्सादयिष्यन्ते इति ।
महाविद्यावि० पृ. १४५ 2 ये तु महाविद्येति । अन्यत्र ग्रन्थान्तरे इत्यर्थः
महाविद्यावि० टीका पृ. १४६ 3 The following information from the manuscript of Nyáyasár-vichára is given here as it is of historical interest. In this commentary Bhatta Rághava has the following passage:
एतेन यत्खण्डनमण्डनरीश्वरवादे दृषणमुदितं तत्परिहृतम् । एवं हि तत्-शुक्तिकायां रजतमित्यत्र रजतज्ञाने यदरजतं प्रतिभाति तद्रजतविषया मनीषा वृषभध्वजस्यास्ति न वा । नाद्यः, शुक्तिकारजतविषयत्वे वृषभध्वजमनीषाया मृषात्वप्रसंगात् । नेतरः, शुक्तिरजतस्यैव अज्ञानात् असर्वज्ञत्वप्रसंगादिति ।
Manuscript of Nyáyasára: vichára, leaf 6. Here the Khandanamandana alluded to is Shriharsha, the author of Khandana and the 'Isvarvada' meant is Shriharsha's 'Îé varábhisandhi' which is mentioned in Khandana by Shriharsha himself in two places. The 'Isvaravada' mentioned by Bhatta Rághava is not the 3rd Parichheda of Khandana, because no such argument as is stated in the above passage is to be found in that Parichheda. This Tévarábhigandhi of Shriharsha seems to have been well-known at Rághava's time (A. D. 1252). But no Manuscript of it has yet come to light.
4 शेषं च ईश्वराभिसन्धौ स्वप्रकाशवादे निर्वक्ष्यामः । खण्डन पृ. १०७ (चौखम्बा)
एवमीश्वराभिसन्ध्यादौ तत्तत्स्थानस्थं सर्वनामान्तरखण्डनं द्रष्टव्यम् । खण्डन पृ. १०४१ (चौखम्बा)
Aho ! Shrutgyanam