226 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1905. 
Jayanta in his Nyayamafjari (3rd ahnika, p. 131, Vizianaga- 
ram Sanskrit series) probably alludes to Dignaga in the subject 
called “ Bhadanta-kalaha.” 
I have already referred to the fact that Dharmakirti wrote a 
av commentary! on a certain work of Dignaga 
seeets DieineE besides cine to his logical views in the 
*  Nyaya-bindu. It was Dharmottaracaryya? 
who explicitly mentioned Dignaga sometimes under that name, but 
often under the name of Dignagacaryya or simply Acaryya. 
Jinendrabodhi? and others wrote commentaries on Pramanasa- 
muccaya of Dignaga. 
The exact date of Dignaiga is not known. On the authority of 
Mallinatha we have found that Dignaga was 
an opponent of Kalidasa, and from Tibetan 
sources we have seen that he was a contemporary of one Isvara- 
Krsna who, I believe, was no other person than the celebrated 
author of the Samkhya-karikaé. From Sanskrit sources we have 
further learnt that Dignaga was anterior to Udyotakara but pos- 
terior to Vatsyfyana, and that Kumarila Bhatta and Dharmakirti 
flourished after the time of Dignaga. But these facts do not help 
us much, as the dates of most of these writers are unknown. From 
Chinese sources we know that Isvara-Krsna’s Samkhya-karika was 
translated into Chinese by Paramartha 557-567 A.D. (Nanjio’s Cat., 
Dignaga’s date. 
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( aiafagetat, B Sy) | 
® Jinendrabodhi’s commentary on Pramana-samuccaya is named “ Visala- 
malavati nama Pramana-samuccaya-tika ’—Tibetan UGA YRS a as’ 
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Na’ SQAQGQAN| It is contained in the Tangyur, section Mdo- 
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