Nyaya-Vaisheshika (critical and historical study)
by Aruna Rani | 1973 | 97,110 words
This essay studies Nyaya-Vaisheshika—A combination of two of the six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy. The study also discusses in detail the authors of various works and critically analyzes key concepts of Nyaya-Vaisesika. Such Indian philosophies seek the direct realization of the Atman (the self) to attain ultimate freedom and bliss....
4. Authors of Nyaya (e): Jyanta Bhatta
Next we came to Jyanta Bhatta, an Astike Naiyayika of great learning and wide reputation. He is the author of Nyaya Manjori, an independent, elaborate and lucid Myaya commentary on the Nyaya Sutra. Nyaya Manjari is of great authority for its exhaustive treatment of the Nyaya logie and ontology and penetrating criticism of the rival schools. The style of Nyaya-Manjari deserves special mention. It is unique of its kind, racy, humorous, reoy, brilliant, with a poignancy that is almost biting in its 1. The following is the list of the known works of Vecaspoti Misra On NyayaOn SamkhyaOn Yoga. 9989 Nyaya-Vartika Tatparya Tike end Nyayo. quei Nibandha Samkhya Tattva Kaumudi Tattva-Veisardi On Purva Mimamsa-Nyaya Kanike and Tattva Bindu On VedantsBhanti
57 pointedness. This treatise has been written by Jayanta in prison. We get this idea from a verse of NyayaManjari in which Jayanta says: I have been thrown by the king into this dark dungeon where even a sound is not heard. Here I have passed my days by the diversion of writing this book. His Nyaya Kalika is a very brief explanatory commentary on the first Sutra of the Nyaya Sutra of Gautama. About his date, we are fortunate enough es his son, Abhinanda, in the introduction to his Kadambari-Kathasars, has left a definite clue. According to Abhinanda, Saktis vamin, his great grand father, was a minister of Saktisvamin, the king Muktipeda (alias Latitaditya) of Kashmir whose reign ended in 735 A.D. Allowing some sixty years for the two intervening generations, the period of Jyanta would fall in the beginning of the ninth century. It means that Jayanta belonged approximately to the age of Vecaspati Misra but we have found nothing about their knowing of each other.