The Rashtrakutas and their Times c23.s2.22

c23.s2.22

The Jain contribution to logic in our period is not inconsiderable. Māṇikyanandin, who flourished in the latter half of the 8th century is the author of a work on logic called Parīkṣāmukhasūtra,³⁸ which was commented upon by Prabhācandra in the first half of the 9th century. Besides writing this commentary which is named as Prameyakāmalamārtaṇḍa this writer has also written *Nyāyakumudachandrodaya*. Another Jain writer on logic of this period is Mallavādin, who was probably the founder of a Jain Digambara monastery at Naosari which is no longer in existence. The Surat plates of Karkka Suvarṇavarsha which I am editing, (E. I., XXI), record a grant to his des ciple’s des ciple given in 821 A.D. This author wrote a commentary called *Dharmottaratippaṇaka* on the *Nyāyabinduṭīkā* of Dharmottarāchārya.³⁹ That a book on logic written by a Buddhist should have been commented upon by a Jain is quite in consonance with the spirit of harmony that prevailed in our period.