Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

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

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Siddhasena and his Works
IV Kalyāṇamandira-stotra :
1) Kalyāṇamandira-stotra: Kāvyamālā 7, Bombay (4th ed.) 1926.
2) Ibidem in Zwei Jaina Stotras by H. JACOBI, Indische Studien, Vol. XIV, pp. 351-391. Here the Text and German Translation are presented with a critical study of the Stotra in comparison with the Bhaktāmara, along with some remarks on grammatical peculiarities.
3) Ibidem with the Sanskrit commentaries of Kanakakusala and Mānikyacandra, in the Volume Bhaktāmara etc. Devacanda L.P. Series, No. 79, Bombay 132. Here is a Foreword by H. JACOBI in English.
3. Studies etc. by Modern Scholars 1. With the beginning of the operation of Search for Sanskrit Mss. in different parts of India, Siddhasena and some of his works, or some legends about him, attracted the attention of scholars like Th. AUFRECHT, R.G. BHANDARKAR, P. PETERSON etc. BHANDARKAR in his Report for 1883-84 (Bombay 1887) noted Jinasena's reference to Siddhasena and also some biographical details about the latter. PETERSON in his Reports III, IV and V (Bombay 1887, 1894 and 1896) puts together good many details about different Siddhasenas.
2. S.C. VIDYABHUSAN presented the advance proofs of his edition of the Nyāyāvatāra to the International Congress of Orientalists, held at Copenhagen in August 1908. In the Introduction to his edition he describes Siddhasena Divākara as “the first Jaina writer on pure Logic”. According to the Vicārc-sāra-prakaraṇa of Pradyumnasūri (1000 A.D.), he was a Svetāmbara. He gives some information about him based on the Prabhāvakacarita (viii. 57f.). He puts him as Kșapaņaka, one of the nine gems according to the Jyotirvidābharaṇa, to be a contemporary of Vikramāditya of Ujjain A.D. 505 and A.D. 587, a contemporary of Varāhamihira.
3. S.C. VIDYABHUSAN: History of the Mediceval School of Indian Logic, Calcutta 1909, pp. 13 ff. Siddhasena Divākara, c. 533 A.D. He is the author of Nyāyāvatāra, a distinct treatise on Jaina logic. His other work is Sammatitarka-sūtra. He belonged to the Śvetāmbara sect as mentioned by Pradyumnasūri He is also men