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and vice-versa was frequent affair and so were the pilgrimages to religious places in Rajasthan and Gujarát; and this intercommunication was rendered all the easier by the fact that the inhabitants of these provinces, during our period, spoke a common language, generally termed Western Rajasthani.
It was really magnificent work that tbese Jain savants accomplished for Indian philosophy. Their peouliar of thinking made for toleration and let them appreciate truth wherever they found it. For truth is many-sided according to the Anēkāntavadin. What is true under a certain set of conditions need not necessarily be true under other circumstances; nor need it, however, be untrue either.
Brahman philosophers-We have mentioned above the names of Brahman philosophers studied in Haribhadra's time. For the postHaribhadra period, we have to add the names of Sankaranandana, Kanada, Aksapada, Vatsyayana, Bbáradvaja Uddyōtakara, Váchaspati, Vyõnašiva, Aniruddha, 36 Sridhara, Vatsächārya, Udayana, Jayanta and Harsa. Sankaranandans of the Ganadharasārdhasatakabrhadvrtti appears to be the great Advaitio philosopher Sankara. From the rare reference to him and his system of thought in Jain literature, it appears that Advaita was never & popular subject with the Jains, though in many ways it was nearer to the Jain system of philoso
an even Buddhism and the other philosophic systems of India, 37 The Jains' favourite subject of study was Nyaya or rather Tarkasastra. Abhayatilakagaại ( 1257 A. D.) a disciple of the Kharatarachārya Jināśvara Sūri composed his commentary, Panchaprasthanyāyatarka to explain Srikantha’s Nyāyakalikā, which again was a comment on the Nyayatavparyaparisuddhi of Udayana, 38 Děvasūri criticized Udayana, who, besides being the author of the commentary just referred to, maintained in his Kusumānjali a theory of the creation of the world not believed in by the Jains.38 Udayana wrote also the Atmatattva
36. Author of the #154allda Est. (Jaisalmer Catalogue. P. II.) 80.a Quoted in the Introduction to the equip474, p. 20.
87. An apparent exception is the 9057055 of Harsa. But for it see the end of the paragraph. 38. Macht HEIT Ågt at
39. Naiy yikas regard Isvara as creator. Jains disbelieve and criticize this view. Pattan Bhandārs have a 79145971 iesafe s by feals (catalogue of the M86. in Pattan Bhandārs, Introduction, p. 44 ).
