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chapter seeks to instruct about hurting the ego of the adversary in response to his question which is just not answered
The two appendices give us indices, the first of works, their authors and their sectarian adherence, and the second of the verses and quotations The students in the Sanskrit colleges, who are introduced currently to the Indian logic through the old works like the Tara-samgraha of Annambhatta or the Tarka-bhāsā of Keśavamısra, and the like, shall benefit much more and shall be equipped in a better manner and with up do date information and logical technique of the universities begin to prescribe this excellent monograph of Sankara Miśra Dr Vishvambhara-natha-gırı has done a great service to the academic community by reediting such a valuable work NMK. MIŚRA-NIBANDHAVALI, alias śASTRIYA-SODHA-NIBANDHA-RATNĀVALI (in Sanskrit), Part I, by Dr Ramanarayan Mishra, Reader, Ganganath Jha Kendnya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Allahabad, Rangesh Prakashan, Devarira (UP) 1993, pp xix + 343 + xi, Rs 88/
The author has composed his Mangalācarana and his Kiñcun-Nivedana in twentythree Sanskrit verses, the concluding one being “Ksamyo janoyam budhair avasyam, Naivasti sacchastra-patha-prabodhah | Tenaiva satya-skhalanam nibandhe, Svābhāvikam vīksya sudharavadbhih 11" which entreats the scholars to correct the faults and forgive the author in view of his shortcomings The collection is further adorned with the Sammati each by Dr. Umashankar Mishra of the Directorate of Education, UP, and by Ram Prasad Tripathi, Principal of the Sampurnand Sanskrit University, Varanasi, as also by an Amukha or Introduction by the author The work is a collection of thirty-seven Sanskrit articles of the author Dr Mishra has mad it clear in his Introduction that by the term Sastra he intends to include all the traditional disciplines like Veda, Vyakarana, Vedānta, Sāhitya, Dharmaśāstra and others over an above the six systems of Indian philosophy Thus, the articles entitled 'Yoga-tantra-vimarśa', 'Sphotavāda-vilāsa', 'Advaitatattväloka', etc, pertain to philosophy, those entitled 'Samāsa-mimämsä', 'Dhavartha-vāda-vimarśa', etc, treat the topics of Sanskrit Grammar, 'Sahityamimamsa', Vyañjanäyrtti-vārtā, etc, deal with the topics of Sanskrit Poetics The whole work is in Sanskrit, and the style adopted is that of the traditional
