Book Title: Mahavidya Vidambanam
Author(s): Bhatta Vadindra, Bhuvansundarsuri, Mangesh Ramkrishna Telang
Publisher: Central Library
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Mádhavárya (A.D. 1398) in the Akshapa dadarśana of his Sarvadarśanasangraha quotes the following verse under the name of Shankara-kinkara who is no other than Vádîndra as has been stated before:
तथा निरटति शङ्करकिङ्करेण
अनुकूलेन तर्केण सनाथे सति साधने । साध्यव्यापकताभङ्गात्पक्षे नोपाधिसंभवः ॥
Haggiadine: g. 8C (315FETTA ) This verse too is not found in Mahavidya-vidambana. It must have also been quoted from some other logical work of Vádîndra.
Sesha Śárngadhara, author of the commentary Nyáya-muktávali on Udayanáchárya's Lakshaņávali and Pratyagrûpa-bhagavan, author of the Nayana-prasadini commentary on Chitsukhácharya's Tattvapradîpika, also quote some definitions under the name of Vádîndra. All these quotations are not to be found in the Mahavidya-vidambana.
From all the above information it is evident that Vádîndra must have written several other works on logic besides the Mahavidya-vidambana
His other known work is (2) Rasasára, a commentary on Guņa-kiranávali of Udayanáchárya, a manuscript of which is said to be in the Library of the Benares Sanskrit Colloge. A third work by him, styled 7601 Gerry has been recently discovered and secured for the Madras Government Oriental Library by the well-known Pandit S. kuppusvámi Sastri. If these works be published they may perhaps throw some more light on Vádîndra and his works.
The scheme of Mahavidya-vidambana-Vádîndra has divided his Mahavidya-vidambana into three chapters called Parichhedas. In Chapter I after the usual Mangala he has defined Mahavidyả and after answering certain objections raised by others against Mahavidya syllogisms, has given 70 syllogisms to prove the non-eternity of sound adding explanatory notės to almost all of them. Thus in the first Chapter he has supported these syllogisms answering the criticisms of other old authors. In Chapter II commenced the refutation of the Mahavidya Syllogisms by criticizing the several definitions of Kevalánvayi-hetu. In Chapter III he has pointed out how these Mahavidva syllogisms are subject to Upadhi (accident) and how they could be demonstrated to be fallacies such as Viruddha (Contradictory probans), Anaikantika (Inconclusive probans), and Satpratipaksha (neutralized probans). Then he has shows how these syllogisms can be contradicted by other syllogisms of the same kind. Subsequently he has pointed out defects in the Mahavidya syllogisms such as Siddhantaviplavakatya (setting at nought the theories accepted by one's own school of
1 See Introduction, Ánandajnána's Tarkasangraha p. xix (Gaekwad's Oriental. Series No. III).
Aho ! Shrutgyanam
