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Madhvācārya is known to have lived during the first half of the XII Century. Vişņusvāmin may have preceded him by a few years only; for the word prathamataḥ of the Bhavisya purāņa does not necessarily imply any considerable interval of time. And Varadarāja may thus have been one of Vieņusvāmin's contemporaries.
We may be pretty sure that Vişnusvāmin did not live after 1300 A. D., as he is mentioned in the Sarvadarçanasamgraha; which fact in itself is an indirect confirmation of the account given of the Vaignava Schools in the Bhavisyapurana So little seems to be known for certain about these earlier writers that the present conjectures may be just worth recording.
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The Tärkikarakṣā, as its name implies, is a controversial treatise in defence of the Nyāya and Vaiçeşika Systems. Aproppriating largely the labours of Vācaspatimiçra and Udayava, it attempts, in a concise and fairly easy manner, to make good the ground which these systems had lost in the Schools. It is divided into three chapters whose order of discussion adheres mainly to that of the original Nyāyasūtras. As might be expected, it discusses at some leugth such topics as the nature of true knowledge, and of the ineans whereby such knowledge may be attained and of the things that can be truly known and, as subservient to these, the nature of reasoning and logical fallacies and the rhetorical methods of debate. A fuller treatment of the work is reserved for the Introduction to the present edition.
The MS. materials employed are as follows:--- (1). MS. of Kārikā only, designated A. (2).
and Sārasamyra ha designated B. This MS. is dated Sam. 57, which must be read 1457; because this MS. and No. 7 below were evidently written by the same band, the form and size of the letters and of the paper corresponding exactly.
(3). MS. of Kārika and Sārasamgraha designated C.
This MS. was transcribed by Mādhavabhatta, son of Kraņa. bhatta in Sam 1061.
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