466 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [September, 1910. 



criticise the treatises of Gunananda, Raghudeva and other 

 logicians of Nadia who were, so to speak, his contemporaries. 

 He must have been a man of extraordinary talent, or 

 else he would never have ventured to attack Siromani, the 

 greatest exponent of modern Logic in Nadia. YaSovijaya 

 frequently refers to Siromani whose inordinate pride he 

 tried to humble down. Once he quotes the satiric remark said 

 to have been well known in Nadia, viz., u Cursed indeed is the 

 province of Bengal, where there is Siromani blind of one eye." 1 

 YaSovijaya was confident that his intellect could penetrate the 

 obscurities on the texts of Logic cast by the commentaries of 

 Siromani. So he observes: — "The ocean of Logic is hard to 

 approach owing to the uproar of waves of the argument of 

 Dldhitikara (Siromani) : yet, is not the water even of that 

 ocean capable of being drunk by the cloud of genius of in- 

 telligent men?"* Some of Ya&ovijaya's works on Logic are 

 mentioned below : — 



The Nyayaloka begins s with a salutation to Mahavira as 



v , , Paramatman (the Supreme Spirit) and 



yayal ends* with an entreaty that its author 



may be freed from affection and aversion which are the causes 

 of all sufferings. The work discusses the nature of soul 

 (atman), emancipation (mukti), inference (anumana), testimony 

 (agama). direct knowledge (pratyaksa j 

 ledge (paroksa jnana), validity of external things (vah- 

 yarthasiddhi), inherence (samavaya), negation (abhava), ether 

 (aka&a), substance (dravya), etc. The undermentioned philoso- 

 phers, philosophical treatises and systems are quoted : — 



Naiyayika, ucchrinkhala-naiyayika (unbridled logicians), 

 Samkhya, Carvaka, Tautatita, Vedantin, Nyaya, Yauktika 



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