Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

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

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Siddhasena and his Works
that Siddhasena cannot be later than the 5th century of the Vikrama era. He controverts the views of JACOBI and VAIDYA and asserts that there is nothing prohibitive to assign Siddhasena earlier than Dharmakirti. Prof. HİRALAL has proved that Ratnakarandaka is not of Samantabhadra; therefore there is no point in saying that Siddhasena is later than Samantabhadra. Siddhasena is a gifted poet of great genius as demonstrated by Pt. SUKHALALAJI. He has put Anekāntavāda on a solid logical basis.
Nāgārjuna established that the vastu is sāpekṣa in the light of Šūnyavāda. Asanga and Vasubandhu proposed that it is vijñānarūpa. Dinnāga, the pupil of Vasubandhu, founded the school of Buddhist logic, and therefore he is the father of it. Likewise Vātsāyana, Sabara and others established their respective views. If these facts of the first five centuries are taken into consideration, Siddhasena's appearance and his contribution to Jaina logic look natural. His exposition of Nayas is quite characteristic and he lays down the foundation of Jaina Nyāyaśāstra in his Nyāyāvatāra. He has used the works of Dinnāga in plenty.
22.: P. N. Dave: Kumudacandra, Summaries of Papers, 21st Session, All-India O. Conference, Srinagar 1961, pp. 104-5.
No definite information is available about the great Jain poet, Kumudacandra, the author of the Kalyāṇamandira. He could not be identical with the Digambara controversialist of the first half of the 12th century. He is to be distinguished from Siddhasena Divākara in view of the positive evidence supplied by Kumudacandra's Cikura Dvātriñśikā which, like the Kalyāņamandira, mentions the name of Kumudacandra. The style etc. of both of them are quite similar. Kumudacandra seems to have flourished between the 11th and 13th centuries A. D. i) Kumudacandra is first mentioned in the Prabhāvakacarita, c. 1277 A. D. ii) The second verse of C.-Dvā. contains the word hevāka of Persian or Arabic origin, not current till 11th century A. D. iii) No commentary earlier than this is available on the Kalyānamandira.
23. H. L. Jain, in his paper 'A Contemporary Ode to Chandragupta Vikramāditya, already noted above, puts together some details about Siddhasena, his age (earlier than 7th century