The Mangala Verse of the Nyāyasiddhānta-muktāvalī of Viśvanātha Mahādeva Bhatta verses Rāmarudra Bhattācārya

MAHADEVA BHATTA VERSUS RĀMARUDRA BHAṬṬĀCĀRYA Swera Prajapatı' In the field of Sanskrit Śästras the most remarkable point is that all Śāstras are interdisciplinary in their nature and scope They form an unitive whole even though there are intra-differences among themselves Each Sästra is enriched by the principles of the other Here in this paper I

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प्रजापति विश्वनाथ की न्यायसिद्धान्तमुक्तावली का मंगलश्लोक लेती हैं, जिसमें रामरुद्र 'समाप्तपुनरात्त' दोष देखते हैं — वाक्य पूरा होने पर जुड़ा विशेषण। महादेव भट्ट की दिनकरी का उत्तर है कि 'लीलाताण्डवपण्डित' विशेष्य है तथा शिव के आभूषणों का कारण है, अतः नई आकांक्षा नहीं उठती। लेखिका महादेव को ठीक मानती हैं। Prajapati takes the maṅgala verse of Viśvanātha's Nyāyasiddhānta-muktāvalī, which Rāmarudra faults for samāptapunarātta - an epithet added after the sentence has closed. Mahādeva Bhaṭṭa's Dinakarī answers that līlātāṇḍavapaṇḍita gives the reason for Śiva's ornaments and raises no fresh ākāṅkṣā. She judges Mahādeva right: poetics borrows Nyāya's test of sentence completion.

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