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A cursory look at the list of the contents would testify to the fact that Prof Bollée has taken all possible precaution and care to see to it that this latest of his literary research product gets born in the best possible beauteous form One would feel that this work should be transliterated back into Devanagari in order that his labours are made known to the notable Jains in India, so that they may realize how much trouble a veteran Western scholar has taken Anyway, Prof Bollée deserves our profuse heartfelt congratulations for the excellent work he has presented to the academic world NMK NYĀYASANGRAHA (With Hindi Trand Explanation) by Muni Nandighosh Vijay Publ Kalıkāla-sarvajña Śrīhemacandrācārya Samkskāra Śiksana Nidhi, Ahmedabad, 1997, PP 52+416 Rs 250/The sūtras of the Nyāyasamgraha and other Paribhāsā-samgrahas perform three types of functions (1) They help in explaining or elucidating the meaning of the sūtras (2) When two sūtras seem to apply in a particular case simultaneously, they help in deciding which should take precedence over the other of the two (3) They help in formulating the acceptable usage and eliminating the unacceptable one The author is a Jaina Muni, and a disciple of Acārya Śrī Vijaya-sūryodaya-sūri The present work endeavors to explain in Hindi all the Nyāyas, ie the Parıbhāsās, utilized in the Siddha-haima-sabdānuśāsana of Hemacandra, and listed together in the fourth Päda of the Seventh Adhyāya of his work
The excellence of Muni Nandighosavijaya les not only in fulfilling successfully his commendable mission of translating and elaborating the original Sanskrit Sūtras in lucid Hindi, but also in his learned Introduction, entitled "Nyāyasamgraha . Eka Adhyayana' in Hindi, in which he has discussed the following 21 topics the need for the science of grammar, the origin and development of Parbhāsā through Panini, Vyādi and Kātyāyana, Hemacandra, his life and learned scholarship, Sıddha-harma-sabdānušāsana and the Haimaparıbhāsā-vrttis, the structural system of the Nyāyasamgraha, the author, the definition of the terms 'nyāya' and 'panbhāsa', the necessity of Paribhāsā/ Nyāya, the order of the Sūtras of Paribhsā/Nyāyas, the Nyāsa on the Nyāyārthamañjūsā-brhad-vrtti, the sources of Paribhāsā/Nyāyas, the definitions of Nityatva and Anutyatva, the nature of the Anubandhas, the nature and determination of Kāryī, the nature and determination of Nimitta, the maxim of Bala and A-bala, the supriority of Apavāda-vidhi, the application of the Paribhāsās, and its restrictions, the commentaries of Paribhāsā or the text of the Paribhāsās in
