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nə) in his Pañjikā, and commenting upon the text of the Vitti he does not think that the addition of "7" in the word has been made owing to the necessity of filling up the measure of the verse, and in this view he is justified by the fact that even lower down in the prose passage where no such necessity exists Haribhadra uses the words " 21947FM "' which the Pañjikâ explains " siraila " etc. The word ' gia' however, like the additions in the Tibetan and Chinese mse, is only a description and not a part of the title. Similarly, in view of the concise style combined with the weighty matter of the work, it came to be described as " and it was so known to Haribhadra wheu he wrote his Vịtti. 3. Commentaries.
It seems that the Nyāyapraves'a wasa very popular work on Logic and was commented upon by a number of Jaina as well as Buddhist writers, Haribhadra, a Jaina writer, whose commentaty--"-7148angie"—is here published, knew of a number of learned and elaborate conmentaries on thes Nyāyapraves'a*, of which the one by Arcata, a Kashmiriau Buddhist scholar, seems to have attracted most attention.f Arcata is mentioned by the Jaina logician Ratnaprabhasuri the author of the Syādvādaratnkärāvatārikä (dated 1181, A.D.) who characterises him as clever in debate and he has criticised Dharmottara, who lived about 847 A. D. His date thus falls somewhere in the tenth century. 1
Haribhadra. The author of the Vștti, is " Haribhadra II ”. (see Dr. Vidyābhūsaņas “ H. I. L." pp 208-10). He was an erudite scholar, who was well-versed in Buddhist as well as in Jaina logic, as is evident from the passages which he has quoted from the works of Dinda or Diināga, Dharmapāla and Dharmakirti along with those of Siddhasena, Samantabhadra and Malla pādin, in his Anekāntavādajayapatākā. tikā. This is further borne out by his interest in the Nyāyapravea's, and his acquaintance with the commentaries of this work, to some of which he makes references is his Yrtti.
* न्यायप्रवेशकव्याख्या स्फुटाथै रचयाम्यहम् ॥ रचितामपि सत्प्रज्ञविस्तरेण समासतः। असत्यज्ञोऽपि संक्षिप्तf: FRIGAT4111
† Soe Notes pop. 2, 4, 10, &c.
| About 900 A. D. Dr. Satischandra Vidyabbûgana, on the evidence mentioned above (H. I, L. P. p. 891-32-).
See Dr. S: V's, H.I, L. p. 209.
