Nyayapraveshakashastram

Author(s): Jambuvijay
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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Preface
With the grace of the my most venerable, gracious benefactor, father and revered teacher, great sage Shri Bhuvanavijayaji Maharaja, I feel extremely happy in presenting a work known as Nyāyapraveśaka, along with a commentary and Pañjikā, before them who are interested in the Buddhist logic.
Nyāyapraveśakaśāstra, written by the famous Buddhist preceptor, Dinnāga, known as the father of Buddhist logic, in the fourth century of the Vikram era, is an important work. On this text (Nyāyapraveśakaśāstra) there is a commentary known as Sisyahitā, written by the preceptor Sri Haribhadrasūri, religious son of Yakinimahattara in the seventh century of the Vikram era and an old commentary known as Nyāyapraveśakavrttipañjikā written on palm-leaves by Sri Pārsvadevagani in the twelfth century of the Vikram era. We have critically edited this text Nyāyapraveśakaśāstra on the basis of the above-mentioned commentaries.
Almost seventy-seven years ago (1930 A.D.) this work was published by the Oriental Institute, Baroda. Its editor was a famous scholar Anandashankar Bapubhai Dhruva from Gujarat. On the basis of the available material at that time, he had edited this work. He mentioned in its introduction the material that was available to him at that time on page xxxiv. We have quoted his words in this publication on page 12. It is however natural that there may have remained some mistakes in the edition based on the scant manuscripts (mss.).
: On the basis of the different mss. from Jaisalmer, Khambhat etc., āgamaprabhākara venerable sage (late) Shri Punyavijayaji did a painstaking vork by completing the broken texts and variants. We got this edition of the text and the Nyāyapraveśakavrttipanjikā of venerable sage Shri Punyavijayaji, giving different readings in the foot-notes or offering different