Book Title: Pushkarmuni Abhinandan Granth
Author(s): Devendramuni, A D Batra, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Rajasthankesari Adhyatmayogi Upadhyay Shree Pushkar Muni Abhinandan Granth Prakashan Samiti
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Akalanka--as a Logician
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(IV) The style of Akalanka is thoughtful, cryptic and difficult to understand. He is more concerned with the analysis, critical study and with the presentation of the subtleties of thought than with the flourish of language. Yet his writings are not bereft flourish and we find subtle and meaningful satire against the writings of other schools of thought.
The writings of Akalanka have been an important landmark in the development of logic and metaphysics. His works have contributed to the effective presentation of the development of Jaina logic and metaphysics, in the perspective of the problem in other systems of Indian thought.
Anekānta is the foundational principle on Jainism. It permeates the very texture of Jaina thought and life. In the context of the present day development of logic and linguistic analysis as metaphysical theory, it would be necessary to study the contributions of Akalanka afresh in the light of the modern developments in logic.
Akalanka showed the catholicity of outlook in understanding the problems of other views of thought as expressed in the controversies in the Indian systems of philosophy. Without entering into the controversy regarding the original intention of the author in the verse given below, we might with confidence say that Akalanka did express the magnanimity of thought and catho. licity of outlook
Yo viśvam vedävedyam janana jala nidherbhanginah paradsvä Pourvāparya viruddham vacanamanupsmam nişkalańkam yadiyam 11 Tam vande sådhuvandyam salalagunanidhim dhvastadośadvişantam Buddham vā Vardhamānam Satadalanilayam Keśavam vă Sivam vā 11
Notes and References 1. Nyāyak umudacandra IV Adhyāya.
"Trailokyodaravartivastuvisayajñānaprabbävedyayo, dusprāpopyakalanka devasaraņihi prāptotra punyodayāt Svabhyastasca vivecitaśca śataśaḥ sönantaviryoktito
Bhuyānme nayanitidattamanasatadbodhasiddhipadah 11" 2. Nyāyaviniscayavivarana of Vadirājasuri
"Güdhamarthamakalanka vāngmayāgadha bhüminihitam tadarhimām
Vyanjayatyamalamanantaviryaväk dīpavartiranićam pade pade 11" 3. Ibid. :............
"Bhùyobhedanayāvagāhana devasya yadvängmayam
Kastadvistarato vivicya vaditum mandam prabhrmādršaha 11" 4. Nemicandra Shastri : Tirthankara Mahāvira aur Unaki Acārya Paramparā (Jaina Vidvat
Parisad 1974.) Vol. II. pp. 300. "Şaftarkeşvakalanka devavibhudhah saksadayam bhūtale."
quoted from Jaina Silalekha Saṁgraha, Part. I. Vo. 47. 5. Jaina Silalekha Sangraha : inscription 108. as quoted by Nemicandra Shastri :
"Tatah param Sastravidām munināmagresarobudakalankasūrihi
Mithyāndhakkärasthagitākhilārthābā prakāśitā yasya vacomayükhehe" 6. Akalanka Carita mentioned as A.D. 778.
"Vikramärkaśakābdiyasatasaptapramajusi
Kale Akalankayatino Bauddhairvadó mahānbhut ” 7. Dhananjaya Namamālā as quoted by Nemicandra Shastri in his Tirthankara Mahavira aur Unaki Ācārya Parampara p. 305.
"Pramāṇamakalankasya Pujyapādasya laksanam
Dhanañjaya kavehe kāvya Ratnatrayamapaścimam!” 8. Jinasena : Adipurāna (Bharatiya Jñanapeetha) 1/53.
"Bhattākalankasripalapātrakesariņām guņāba | Viduşām hrdayarudbā hārayantētimirmalāhā "
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