Nyayavatara

Author(s): Satish Chandra Vidyabhushan
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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INTRODUCTION.
years before his arrival there. From these it appears that Siddha Sena Divâkara, who was a contemporary of Vikramaditya, must have lived at Ujjainî about 550 A. D.
Legends and historical accounts show that Siddha Sena was the well-known Kṣapanaka2 (the Jaina sage), who adorned the court of Vikramaditya and was one of the Nine Geras (Nava Ratna). Varâhamihira, the famous astronomer, who was another of the Nine Gems of the court of Vikramaditya, lived between A D. 5053 and A.D. 587. We are told that Kṣapanaka, alias Siddha Sena, was a contemporary of Varâhamihira; so he must have flourished about the middle of the 6th century.
1 Vide Beal's Buddhistic Records of the Western World, Vol. 11, p. 26.
धन्वन्तरिः चपणकोऽमरसिंहशङ्कर्वे ताल भट्टघटखर्पर कालिदासाः । ख्याता वराहमिहिरो नृपतेः सभायां रत्नानि वै वररुचिर्नव विक्रमस्य ॥
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(Jyotirvidâbharaṇa).
* Vide Dr. Thibaut's Introduction to Pañcasiddhântika, p. XXX. Varahamihira chose Saka 427 or A. D. 505 as the abdapizda of his astronomical calculation, showing thereby that he lived about that time. So
सप्ताश्विवेद-संख्यं शककालमपास्य चैत्रशुक्लादौ ।
agiafìà mài vaagè âru fè̟aura^ ( = 11
(Pañcasiddhântika, Chap. 1, edited by Dr. G. Thibaut and Sudhakara Dvivedi.)