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Dharmabhūṣaṇa’s Nyāyadīpikā, 19th cent.?

Contents

The Nyāyadīpikā of Dharmabhūṣaṇa, a Digambara Jaina work, treating the epistemological basis of Jaina metaphysics

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: [1v] oṃ namaḥ siddhebhyaḥ | śrīvarddhamānam arhaṃtaṃ | natvā vālapravuddhaye | viracyate mitaspaṣṭasaṃdarbbhanyāyadipikā ǁ 1 ǁ pramāṇanayair adhigama iti mahāśāstratatvārthasūtraṃ | tat khalu paramapuruṣārthaniḥśreyasasādhanasamyagdarśanādivi-ṣayabhūtajīvāditatvādhigamopāyanirūpaṇaparaṃ pramāṇanayābhyāṃ hi vivecitā jīvādayaḥ | samyag adhigamyaṃte | tadvyatirekeṇa jīvāditatvādhigame prakārāṃtarāsaṃbhavāt | tata eva jīvādyadhigamopāyabhūtau pramāṇanayāv api vivektavyau | tadvivecanaparaḥ | prāktanagraṃthāḥ saṃty eva tathāpi kecid vistṛtāḥ | kecid gaṃbhīrā iti na tatra vālānām adhikāra | tatas teṣāṃ suṣopāyena pramāṇanayātmakanyāyasvarūpa-prativodhakaśāstrādikārasaṃpatiaye prakaraṇam idam ārabhyate | iha hi pramāṇanayavivecanam uddeśalakṣaṇanirdeśaparīkṣādvāreṇa kriyate | anudiṣṭasya lakṣaṇanirdeśānupapatteḥ | anirdiṣṭalakṣaṇasya parikṣatum aśakyatvāt | aparīkṣitasya vivecanāyogāt | lokaśāstrayor api tathaiva vastuvivecanaprasiddheḥ |

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: iii + 38 + xxx
Dimensions (binding): 22.9 × 17.1 cm.

Condition

end missing.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 19th cent.?

probably about a. d. 1820–1840.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought in 1887 from Dr. Eugen Hultzsch (MS. 444).

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1378, pp. 223-224

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1378, pp. 223-224

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