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INTRODUCTION.
thor of Nyâyâvatâra.
Logic was mixed up with metaphysics and reliSiddha Sena Ni- gion in the ancient writing of the vakara, the au- Jainas as in those of other sects in
India. The first Jaina writer on Pure Logic appears to have been Siddha Sena Divâkara. It was he who, for the first time among the Jainas, distinguished logic from the cognate branches of learning by composing a metrical work called Nyâi, yâ vatâra' on Logic in thirty-two stanzas,
Siddha Sena Divâ kara is the famous author of the Sammati-tarka---sûtra, which is a Prâkrta work on philosoplıy, containing an elaborate discussion on the principles of logic. This author, who belonged to the Svetânıbara (the white-robed) sect, has been
A manuscript of the Nyâya yatára by Siddha Sena Divâkara,
ether with its commentary called Nyayavatára-vivrti, was kindly procured for me from Bhavanagara, Bombay, by Venerable Dharmavijaya and his pupil, Indravijaya. For further information about this work, see a notice of it in Peterson's Fifth Report on Sanskrit MSS., p. 289. The notes, incorporated in this paper for the elucidation of the translation, are all based on the Nyâyâvatâ ra-vivrti.
