Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

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

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Siddhasena and his Works
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Nyāyāvatāra, which are insisted upon as his works, there are no biographical details. No clear-cut evidence is put forth to show that “all these works belong to one and the same Siddhasena.
According to Digambara and Svetāmbara lietarary traditions there are a number of works, such as, 1) Jītckalpa-cūrņī; 2) Tattvārthādhigama-tīkā; 3) Pravacanasāroddhāra-vštti; 4) Ekaviņśati-sthāna-prakaraņa; 5) Sakrastava and some others no more available now; 6) Byhat-saddarśana-samuccaya; 7) Vişograśamanavidhi (a treatise on inedicine); 8) Nītisära-purāņa are attributed to him. Besides these works, i) Dvātrimsad Dvātrimśikā; ii) Sanmati-sūtra; iii) Nyāyāvatāra; and iv) Kalyāṇamandira are put to his credit.
According to Dig. tradition, Kumudacandra is the author of the Kalyāṇamandira, but according to the Prabhāvaka-carita (Saṁ. 1334) of Prabhācandra, Kumudacandra is another name of Siddhasena Divākara. But a couple of earlier Prabhandhas do not mention this. Merutunga (V. S. 1361) and Jinakalpasūri (V. S. 1405) do not give Kumudacandra as a name of Siddhasena. The Prabandhakośa (V. S. 1405) of Rājasekhara mentions Kumudacandra as the name of Siddhasena but attributes to him Pārsvanātha Dvā. (instead of Kalyānamandira-Sto.), obviously a different work, and therefore these Kumudacandras must be different persons. In the present Kalyāna-m.-stotra there is a reference to the upasarga of Pārsvanātha by a demon, and this agrees with the Dig. tradition and not with the Svetā. one which lays down upasargas only for Mahāvīra. The biographical details in the five Prabandhas are often basically different and contradictory, as shown by Pts. SUKHALALAJI and BECHARDASAJI; and they conclude that Kumuda candra 'could not have been the name of S.-Divākara. So there is no evidence to attribute the Kalyāna-m. to Siddhasena.
We may take up the other three works attributed to Siddhasena (Nyāyāvatāra, ed. P. L. Vaidya; Sanmati-sūtra, ed. Pts. SUKHA. and BECHARA.; and Dvās, ed. BHAVNAGAR). The order of the Drā.s could not have been that of the author, not did he compose all of them after accepting renunciation; and further, all these are not composed by one and the same author. The -21st Dvā, for a number of reasons, could not be attributed to