New Dimensions in Jaina Logic

Author(s): Mahaprajna Acharya, Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Today and Tommorrow Printers and Publishers

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it on a pillar lest he should forget it. The next day he went out on some business. A saint who visited his house for alms, chanced to catch sight of the pillar on which the aphorism was written. He read it, and adding the word 'samyak' (right) at its beginning retired from there. When the layman Dvaipayana came home, he felt great joy to see the addition of the word 'samyak' in the beginning of the aphorism, and realized himself lacking in knowledge. He approached the saint and humbly requested him to compose the work. Honouring nis wish he commenced composing it. As a result of this effort Tattvārthasutra was composed in its ten chapters. Tattvārthasūtra and its Bhāsya are his chief works. Both the Svetämbara and Digambara traditions respect them equally.
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Vadībhasimha (8th-9th century A.D.)
It is a title, not a name. Many ācāryas bore this title. He was the disciple of Acärya Pusyasena Akalanka. Acarya Pusyasena was a co-student of Akalanka. What his original name was is not known. Two of his works are available, namely Syadvādasiddhi and Navapadārthaniscaya.
52. Vādidevasūri (1087-1170 A.D.)
He was the devout (patta) disciple of Municandrasuri. He was born in the Prāgvāta family of Gurjaradeśa in 1087 v.s. He was ordained at the age of nine at Bhadoñca in 1096, and attained the status of an acārya at the age of thirty-one years in 1118 v.s. He debated with a Digambara scholar Kumudacandra in the court of Jayasimha Siddharāja, the king of Anahilapura. Enlarging the Parikṣāmukha of Mānikyanandi he compossed the Pra:nānanayatatı vāloka and wrote a voluminous commentary named Syādvādaratnākara on it. He left for the heavenly abode in 1117.'
Bhadreśvara was his favourite disciple, and Ratnaprabha was his chief disciple. The abridged form of the Svad vādaran akura is known as the Ratnakarā vatārikā.
53. Vădirājasūri (1 lth century A.D.)
He was a respectable debater in the court of the famous king Jayasimha 1 of the Solanki dynasiv of the Dercan. From the eulogy of the Pursranāthacuritru written by him it is learnt that he lived nearabout Kattageri. It is still a simple vill e ruins of which testify that it must have been a big city in the pas. He was