Nyayavatara

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Sanskrit Book Depot P Ltd

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who resembled elephants. In the introduction to his Nyāyāvatāravivrti (q. v.) he has quoted the Buddhist logicians, Dharmottara and Arcata, and in the concluding lines has craved the mercy of Jina.
PRESIDENCY COLLEGE,
CALCUTTA. The 12th June, 1908.
SATIS CHANDRA VIDYABHUSANA
AN OBSERVATION.
Mahāmahopadhyāya Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyābhūşaņa maintains here that Siddhasena Divākara was identical with the well-known Kșapaņaka. This view perfectly commends itself to me. There is proof enough that Siddhasena was a Jaina sage and lived in the court of Vikramaditya. That Ksapaņaka was one of the Nine Gems of the court of Vikramāditya is also very widely known, and it remains only to prove that he was a Jaina sage. We have instances enough in the Pañcatantra and the Mahābhārata where the Jaina ascetics are nicknamed as Ksapanaka. The following instances from the Avadānakalpalatā will show that the Buddhists also designated, rather nicknamed, the Jaina ascetics as Ksapanaka:
भगवद्भाषितं तत्तु सुभद्रेण निवेदितम् । श्रुत्वा क्षपणक: क्षिप्रमभूद् द्वेषविषाकुलः ।। ६ ।। तस्य सर्वज्ञतां वेत्ति सुभद्रो यदि मगिरा। तदेष क्षपणश्रद्धां त्यक्ष्यति श्रमणादरात् ।। १२ ।। मूर्खक्षपणभक्तन तगिरा हतयोषिता । त्वया त्यक्तस्वपुत्रेण किं नाम सुकृता कृतम् ।। ४० ॥
(Jyotiskāvadāna). INDIAN REASERCH SOCIETY)
SARAT CHANDRA DAS CALCUTTA.
1 तीर्थे वीरविभोः सुधर्मगणभृत् सन्तानलब्धोन्नति
श्चारित्रोज्ज्वलचन्द्रगच्छजलधिप्रोल्लासशीतद्युतिः । साहित्यागमतर्कलक्षणमहाविद्यापगासागरः
श्रीचन्द्रप्रभसूरिरद्भ तमतिर्वादीभसिंहोऽभवत् ।। १ ।। (Daśavaikālika-ţikā by Tilakācārya, noticed in Peterson's Fifth Report, p. 65.)