Nyayamanjari Part 01

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

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PREFACE
The Nyāyamañjarī of Jayantabhațța is an epochmaking work on Indian logic. The book was first published in the Vizianagram Sanskrit Series, Varanasi in 1895 under the editorship of AM Gangadhara Shastri of hallowed memory. The introduction contains many useful points which throw much light on the author and the work. Decades after the book was re-edited by Pandit Surya Narayana Shukla in the Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series, Varanasi. It was also reprinted in the same series in 1971. It is, however, unfortunate that all these editions suffered from misprints which at times create difficulties for readers in determining the correctness of the abstruse text.
It has been, however, a matter of great satisfaction that the only available commentary, 'Granthibhanga', by Cakradhara edited by Nagin J. Shah has been published by L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad in 1972. The importance of this commentary lies in this that the commentator has taken special care in not only explaining the knotty points but also in identifying the writers not mentioned by name in the original text, besides giving a few important historical data. It is, therefore, in the fitness of things that we have proposed to bring out this edition of Nyāyamañjarī with the commentary "Granthibhanga' which will enable our readers to study the work more thoroughly and conveniently than before as both the text and the commentary are being made available to them in this edition.
The plan of this edition is as follows: This is the first volume of the text containing the first four Āhnikas. The