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The Nyayavatara, erroneously ascribed by tradition to Siddhasena Divakara, was either the first or one of the first serious Jaina treatises on epistemology.
Its author enters polemics with other – mostly Buddhist – epistemological schools and endeavours to establish a Jaina epistemological tradition of its own.

Despite its importance, the work is rather secondary in the sense that it relies, for the most part, on the Buddhist logical legacy. The first extant commentary is the Nyayavatara-vivrti of Siddharsigani.
Its significance is often underestimated, for its author was responsible for the subsequent development of Jaina epistemological thought to a much larger degree than it has so far been recognised. He refers to major philosophical schools of his times, e.g. to Sautrantika, Yogacara, Sunya-vada, Samkhya, Mimamsa, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Advaita-vedanta, the materialists, etc.
The gloss (Tippana) of Devabhadra is in addition a useful source of quotations.

Autoren

• Die Lehre von den Klesas in der Yogacarabhumi (Band 55)
• Die dreifach Schulung (Siksa) im frühen Yogacara. Der 7. Band des Hsen-yang sheng-chiao lun (Band 54)
• Jaina Epistemology in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Band 53,1+2)
• Kalapani: (Band 52)
• Der Kreislauf der Opfergaben im Veda (Band 51)
• Wohlwollen, Mitleid, Freude und Gleichmut (Band 50)
• Catalogue of the Papers of Ernst Leumann in the Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet, University of Hamburg (Band 49)
• Yuktidipika. The Most Significant commentary on the Samkhyakarika (Band 44)
• Jnandev Studies I and II: Songs on Yoga. Texts and Teaching of the Maharastrian Naths / Jnandev Studies III: The Conservative Vaisnava. Anonymous Songs of the Jnandev Gatha.