Book Title: Mahavidya Vidambanam
Author(s): Bhatta Vadindra, Bhuvansundarsuri, Mangesh Ramkrishna Telang
Publisher: Central Library
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particular period to Anandapûrņa. He seems to have fourished after Sankara
Misra (A. D. 1529), author of the Sankari commentary on Khandana. We meet with the following passage in the refutation of a definition of Pratyaksha (direct perception) in Sriharsha's Khandana:
अथ यदनन्तरं न विजातीयप्रमित्सा तद्भावस्तथात्वम् । तन्न । तत्साजात्यानवगतो तद्विजातीयत्वानवगतेः, अरिसंपदि अनुमानादिविषयायां प्रत्यक्षयितुमनिष्टेश्च ।
खण्डन पृ. ३१८ (Lazarus Edition) Ditto पृ. ५८६ ( चौखम्बा) Sankar Miśra in commenting upon this passage says that the reading अनुमानादिविषयायां is gramatically inaccurate and accepts अनुमानादिविषये as the correct reading. But Anandpurņa in his Vidyasagari recites the implied objection of Sankara Miśra against the reading Eh faqurai and answers the objection by stating reasons in support of the said reading. From this circumstance it is clear that Anandpůrna who has criticized Sankara Misra's view must have lived after him i.e.after A.D. 1529. We have already stated above that Madhusudana who lived in the 17th century has referr to Anandapûrņa under the name of Vidyasagara. We must therefore place Anandapurna between A.D. 1529 and 1600.
The Commentator Bhuvanasundara-We now turn to Bhuvanasundarasûri, author of the second commentary published with the text of Mahavidyavidambana in the present volume.
From the verses at the commencement and at the end of his commentary we gather the following information about Bhuvanasundara:-He was a pupil of Sri Somasundara sûri belonging to Tapa-gachha sect. He wrote the commentary at the command of his preceptor. He studied logic under Guņaratua 4 (author of Shad-darsana-samuchaya-Vritti A. D. 1409). The commentary of Mahavidya-vidambana which he calls Vyákhyánadîpika was composed by him in the temple of Sri Párśvanátha at Harshapura.5 Charitrarája and Ratnashekhar Muni, two Jain scholars revised Bhuvanasundara's commentary and 1 अनुमानादिविषयायामिति प्रमादपाठः । अनुमानादिविषये इति पाठः साधीयान् ।
खण्डन, शाङ्करीटीका पृ. ३१९ १ विषयायामिति स्त्रीलिङ्गप्रयोगोऽनुपपन्नो, नियतपुल्लिङ्गत्वाद्विषयशब्दस्येतिचेत् । न। विषयशब्दस्य भावपरत्वात् , विषयतायामिति विवक्षितत्वात् , 'येकयोर्दिवचनैकवचने' इति प्रयोगात् यथा द्वित्वैकत्वयोरिति विवक्षितमिति।
खण्डन, विद्यासागरीटीका पृ. ५८७ (चौखम्बा) 3 श्रीमत्तपाङ्गणनभोऽङ्गणमानुकल्पश्रीसोमसुन्दरगुरोः प्रवरोपदेशम् ।
आसाद्य साहसमिदं क्रियते मयैतद्ग्रन्थातिदुर्गमपदार्थविवेचनायाम् ॥ महाविद्यावि० टीका पृ.१ 4 तर्कादिग्रन्थविषये यत्किञ्चिज्ज्ञायते मया। तत्र श्रीगुणरत्नाव्हगुरूणां वाग्विजम्भितम् ॥
महाविद्यावि० टीका पृ. १ 5 हर्षपुरनामनगरे देवश्रीपार्श्वनाथशुभदृष्टौ । व्याख्यानदीपिकेयं समर्थिता भवतु जयलक्ष्म्यै ॥
महाविद्यावि० टीका पृ. १५०
Aho ! Shrutgyanam
