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Bhāvasena was a Jain philosopher of the Digambara school who lived in South India during the late 13th and early 14th century.[1] His Viśvatattvaprkāśa is particularly important for its systematic questioning of the validity of the Vedic tradition.[2] In his Collected papers on Jaina studies, P. S. Jaini gave an account of Bhāvasena and his Muktivicāra and Bhuktivicāra, with translations.[3] Somewhat later, Eiichi Yamaguchi, in his report on the 14th world Sanskrit conference in Kyoto, 2009, refers to a paper delivered by Robert Zydenbos on Bhāvasena's Viśvatattvaprkāśa, but that work remains unpublished.[4]

References

  1. ↑ His published works are listed in: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-309625902; brief mention of him in the Jaina Prosopographical Database, https://jaina-prosopography.org/person/1819.
  2. ↑ Bhāvasena Trividyadeva, and Vidyadhar Pasusa Joharapurkar. Viśvatattvaprakāśa; ālocanātmaka prastāvanā, Jaina tārkika sāhityanāmaka vistr̥ta nibandha, ṭippaṇa, ityādi sahita prathamavāra sampādita. Solāpūra: Gulābacanda Hirācanda Dośī, Jaina Saṃskr̥ti Saṃrakshaka Sandha, 1964.
  3. ↑ Padmanabh S. Jaini, Collected papers on Jaina studies (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2000), chapters 8 & 10.
  4. ↑ Centre for Jaina Studies, SOAS, CoJS Newsletter, issue 5 (March 2010), p. 15

Further reading

  • Bhāvasena. Viśvatattvaprakāśa, ed. V. Johrapurkar, Sholapur, 1964.