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न्यायविनिश्चयविवरण that the authorities of the Bharatiya Jañāpitha, Kasbi, have found Pt. Mahendra Kumara as the Editor of this remarkable work, Avery few scholar could execute this hard task with the ease, felicity and mastery of Pt. Mahendra Kumara.
Pt. Mahendra Kumara possesses a singular combination of perfect knowledge of Jaina thought and Buddhist logic. He is thoroughly at home in both, and his brief comments given in the footnotes throw a mass of light on the knotty problems, both linguistic and philosophical. This work is practically an encyclopaedia of Indian logic, which is noted for its stupendously wide range and its appalling dialectic. I have not as yet been able to make as thorough study of the work as I wished. But the more I have gone into the contents, the greater have been my surprise and satisfaction. The merits of this classic of Jaina logic are stupendous. Its clarification of Prajñākaragupta's difficult ipsedixits and incisive analysis of Dharmakirti's Pramānavárttika are sure to arouse the interest of ambitious students, though their number is unfortunately progressively dwindling down. The works of Dharmakirti and his commentary in their original have been recently published, but unfortunately they have not had the good fortune of being edited with the skill and care and scholarship that characterize my friend Pt. Mahendra Kumara. He has had the rare privilege of sitting at the feet of Pt. Sukhlal Sanghavi who is the greatest luminary in the firmament of Jaina and Buddhist scholarship. We must congratulate ourselves that our country still possesses these scholars who are the true intellectual assets of our land. The present work may be regarded as the property of the Jaina
Buddhist logic with equal propriety. The salient feature of the work is the thoroughness of its treatment of the problems which have been examined in it. In the very exposition of the concept of omniscience at the very outset, a modern scholar cannot but be struck with agreeable surprise to see that omniscience unqualified and unrestricted is the presupposition of a religious teacher. The entire world is an interrelated system in which the full knowledge of even an insignificant fragment would naturally pre
