Parikshamukh Sutram

Author(s): Manikya Nandi, Anantvirya, Satishchandra Vidyabhushan
Publisher: Calcutta

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INTRODUCTION
middle term into three kinds according to the relation which it bears to the major term.
Māņikya Nandi is stated in the Pariksāmukha-laghuvrtti to have got his inspiration in Logic from Akalanka Deva? (often called simply Akalanka; or Deva *) who fourished about 750 A.D. The approximate date in which Māņikya Nandi lived is 800 A.D."
The Pariksämukha-laghuvrtti is also known by the names of Pariksă mukha-panjikă? and Prameyaratnamālā." It is the work of a Digambara logician named Anantavīrya, the famous author of a gloss on Akalanka's Nyāyayiniscaya called Nyâyaviniscayavịtti. Anantavīryà observes that it was at the request of Hirapa, the beloved son of Vaijeya, that he undertook for the sake of Sāntipena to write the Pariksāmukha-pañjikā. Now, Säntisena, supposed be identical with Santi Sūri, died in samvat 1096 or A.D. 1039. !! His contemporary Anantavīrya must, therefore, have flourished
i wa affifa 19mfat: tamatie afo (Dharmakirti's Nyāyabindu.
Peterson's edition, chap. ii,
p. 104). 2 अकलस्वचोऽभाधेवर येन धौमता arafagran a arfuwa (Parikşamukha-laghuvștti, chap. i.
opening lines.) 3 FTATE yeteanfeantafaufamtą a faj affwayafafwanza (Pariksāmukha-laghuvetti, chap. vi,
p. 54). + मुखसंव्यवहाराभ्यां प्रत्यक्षमुपदर्शिनमा tayutay affo uffon #ore (Parikņāmukha-laghuvetti, chap. ii,
p. 25). 5-6 Vide my " History of the Modieval School of Indian Logic "published by the Calcutta University, pp. 26, 28.
7 Vide footnote 10. fa ya TTC H WT yeaf#: Fag (Parīkşamukha-laghuvștti,
chap. vi, p. 55). तस्योपरोधवशतो विशदोरुकौती afu arratiamatwatnyi स्पोकृतं कतिपयैर्वचनैरुदारैः
alatwaragata: 11 (Parikṣāmukha-laghuvrtti, chap. vi, p. 55). 10 aufgetrewa: MOTIuara 977aft (Parīkņāmukha-laghuvștti, opening
lines). 11 Vide the Indian Antiquary, vol. xi, p. 253 ; and Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar's Report on Sanskrit MSS. during 1883-84, p. 129.