Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

Author(s): Siddhasena Divakar, Vinayvijay, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal

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INTRODUCTION
Among the works traditionally attributed to Siddhasena Divākara, it is accepted almost unanimously that he is not the author of the Kalyāṇamandirastotra. This Stotra is composed on the pattern of the Bhaktāmara; like the latter mentioning its author's name Mānatunga, this mentions Kumudacandra; and both of them are invested with miraculous efficacy. Another work of this Kumudacandra is Cikura-dvātrimsikā, and it is being assigned to c. 12th century A.D. The Dvātrimsikā No. 21 is also not regarded as Siddhasena Divākara's composition. There have been Siddhasenas more than one; and here we are concerned only with him who was called Divākara.
Siddhasena has not given any autobiographical details. The Sammai-suttam opens with the word Siddha. Obviously it is a mangalika term, but the possibility of author's hinting his name cannot be ruled out. In the Dva.s Nos. 1,2 and 16, there is a term siddha or siddhi in the closing section, while Nos. 5 and 21 mention Siddhasena by sleșa. The first five form a unit, as it were; and the author mentioning his name at the end of the fifth, really a Stuti for which Divakara is famous, is quite appropriate. The 21st is not accepted as the composition of Siddhasena Divākara; naturally, if it mentions the author as Siddhasena, he must be different from Divākara. If VIDYABHUSAN'S text has kṛtir iyam Sri-sitapaṭṭa-Siddhasena-Divakarasya, Siddharṣi's commentary has possibly his vivṛti in view when it adds kṛtir iyam ācārya-Siddha-vyākhyānikasya. Then in a Ms., in the Bhandarkar O. R. Institute, Poona, the