Nyayamanjari Part 01

Author(s): Jayant Bhatt, Chakradhar, Gaurinath Shastri
Publisher: Sampurnand Sanskrit Vishva Vidyalay

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one whom he calls Rājā. According to Cakradhara, the commentator of Nyāyamañjarī, Rājā means Rāja-vārttika-kāra. We find the text in Yuktidipikā, the well-known commentary on Sankhyakārikā which is more or less a work of the type of a Vārttika. It may not, therefore, be unwise to identify this work with what Cakradhara describes as Rāja-Vārttika. It is wocthy of note that Jayanta has neither mentioned the name of any particular person as the writer of the work nor the author of the Yuktidīpikā is known to us. It is suggested that the expression Rājā may refer to one King Mihirabhoja who lived towards the close of the ninth century and who was known for his scholarship in the Šāstras.
*** Jayantabhatta was a devout Saiya (Candrakalāvacūlacaraņādhyāyi )'. He describes himself as the son of Candra who had the loveliness of the moon and whose fame extended upto the extremities of the quarters and was a devotee of the moon-crested Lord Siva. Candra's father was Kalyāṇasvāmin who was born to Saktisvāmin, son of Mitra. Mitra's father was Śakti who is reported to have migrated to Kashmir from Gauậa-desa.Jayanta's son is Abhinanda, author of Kādambarī-kathā-sāra.
1. It is to be noted that he was a redoubtable realist and not a
monist. He had every respect for the Agamas but he did not
belong to the Pratyabhijñā school. 2. Vide, penultimate stanza of the work. 3. An adept in Vedic lore and an eminent ritualist. 4. A man of great leas ning and Minister of King Muktāpīda of the
Karkota dynasty. 5. In the introduction to Nyayakalikā MM Ganganath Jha 'writes :
The fact becomes all the more interesting when it is remembered that his ancestors hailed from Bengal which was the stronghold of Mahayanic Buddhist culture in those days.