Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

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

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Siddhasena and his Works
Inscriptions from S. Belgol put Pūjyapāda later than Samantabhadra. The Nyāyāvatāra borrows a verse from Ratnakarandaka and is also influenced by the Derāgama. Siddhasena, the author of the Sanmati, is later than Pūjyapāda and consequently later than Samantabhadra whose Svayambhūstotra and Aptamimāṁsā have influenced the Sanmati of Siddhasena.
Siddhasena, in one of the Dvā (ya esa etc. 1.13), has a veiled reference to Samantabhadra who ‘for the first time, instituted the test of Sarvajña in his Āptamīmāṁsā etc. Some of the Dvā.s have many ideas and expressions common with the Svayambhūsto. Samantabhadra's works have obviously influenced Siddhasena; and the latter flourished later than the former. This is borne out by the dates given in the traditional Pattāvalis.
Pt. SUKHALALAJI's qualification ‘first' for Siddhasena is not justified in view of the influence inherited by him from Samantabhadra's works. From the over-all points of view, the age of Siddhasena, the author of the Sanmati is between the 3rd quarter of the 6th and the 3rd quarter of the 7th century of the Vikrama era.
As to the Sampradāya of Siddhasena, he, like Umāsvāti and Samantabhadra, is respected by both the Dig. and Svetā. schools. According to Dig. tradition, Siddhasena is mentioned in the Pattāvali of the Senagaņa. He is remembered with reverence by Jinasena in his Harivamsa (Šaka 705), 'Jinasena in his Adipurāņa and quoted (with extracts from the Sanmati) by Virasena and Jinasena. Likewise Padmaprabha Maladhārideva, Pratāpakirti, Kanakāmara, etc. have given him high compliments.
According to the Svetāmbara tradition, Siddhasena is generally known by his title Divākara which was first used by Haribhadra and later by Abhayadeva. In the Cūrņi and in the Nayacakra of Mallavādi, the term is not appended to his name. In the earlier Pattāvalis his name is not mentioned. In an Avacūrī (on a Stava) composed after the 9th century of the Vikrama era, his name is mentioned. He is mentioned as Prabhāvaka and not Divākara, pupil of Dharmācārya and Vrddhavādi. In one source he is mentioned after Pādalipta as having produced the image of Pārsvanātha by reciting the Kalyāṇamandira at Ujjaini at the time of Vikramāditya (of