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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Uddyotakara is well known as a Brāhmaṇa logician and author of a sub-commentary on Gotama's Nyāya- sūtra called the Nyāya-vārttika, in which he mentions two treatises on Logic called respectively the Vādavidhi and Vādavidhāna-ṭīkā.
page 603 note 1 Nyāyasthitim iva Uddyotakarasvarūpāṁ Bauddhasaṅgatim iva alaṅkārabhūṣitām … Vāsavadattāṁ dadarśa (Vāsavadattā, p. 235, Hall's edition).
page 604 note 1 Kavīnām agalad darpo nūnaṁ Vāsavadattayā Śaktyeva Pāṇḍuputrāṇāṁ gatayā karṇa-gocaram (Harṣacarita, Ucchvāsa i).
page 604 note 2 Pṛṣṭhato niṣannasya Mālavarājasūnor akathayat “mahān ayaṁ bhujaṅga” iti … Brāhmaṇo smi jātah somapāyināṁ vaṁśe Vātsyāyanānām yathākālam upanayanādayaḥ kṛtāḥ saṁskārāḥ samyak paṭhitaḥ sāṅgo vedaḥ śrutāni yathāśakti śāstrāṇi dāra-parigrahād abhyāgāriko smi kā me bhujaṅgatā? (Harṣacarita, Ucchvāsa ii, p. 58, Īśvarachandra Vidyāsāgara's edition).
One day King Harṣa while sitting in his court looked back towards the Prince of Malwa and spoke of Bāṇa as follows: “This [Bāṇa] is a great ‘bhujaṇga’ [snake or dissolute person].” Bāṇa remaining mute for a while replied thus: “I am by birth a Brāhmaṇa descended from the Soma-drinking Vātsyāyana family, have duly passed through all the sacraments, such as the wearing of a sacred thread, etc., have studied completely the whole Veda with its auxiliary parts, have listened to the śāstras to the best of my power, and have, by accepting a wife, become a householder: wherein, then, consists my bhujaṅgatā [snakishness or dissoluteness]?”
page 604 note 3 For the date of Dharmakīrti see my History of the Medieval School of Indian Logic, p. 105, published by the University of Calcutta.Google Scholar
page 604 note 4 Iti Śrī-paramarṣi - Bhāradvāja - Pāśupatācārya-Śrīmad-Uddyotakarakṛtau Nyāyavārttike pañcamo 'dhyāyaḥ (Nyāyavārttika, colophon).
page 605 note 1 Vide Beal's Buddhist Records, pp. 186–90Google Scholar. Cunningham observes: “The importance of the position [of Śrughṇa] is shown by the fact that it stands on the high road leading from the Gangetic Doad, via Mirat, Saharanpur, and Ambala, to the Upper Panjab and commands the passage of the Jumna. By this route Mahmud of Ghazni returned from his expedition to Kanoj, by this route Timur returned from his plundering campaign at Haridwar, and by this route Baber advanced to the conquest of Delhi” (Ancient Geography of India, p. 347).Google Scholar
page 605 note 2 Tad idānīṁ Vidarbharājamantriṇā satā Devarātena Mādhavaṁ putram ānvīkṣikīśravaṇāya Kuṇḍinapurād imāṁ Padmāvatīṁ prahinvatā suvihitam (Mālatī-mādhava, Act I)
page 606 note 1 Yad Akṣapādaḥ pravaro munīnāṁ śamāya śāstraṁ jagato jagāda Kutārkikājñānanivṛttihetuḥ Kariṣyate tasya mayā nibandhaḥ (Nyāyavārttika, opening line).