न्यायकुसुमाञ्जलि (उदयनाचार्य - ईश्वर-सिद्धि दार्शनिक तर्कशास्त्र एवं सान्वय सटीक)

FOREWORD
I congratulate the Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series
authorities of Banaras on the publication of a new
edition of Udayana's Nyaya Kusumanjali with five
commentaries and sub-commentaries, including those
of Vardhamana and Ruchidatta which accompanied its
first edition. The text of Kusumanjali consists of
a number of mnemonic verses ( karikas ) arranged
into five groups and furnished with the author's own
commentary in prose. The work has come down to us in
two forms, as (i) a complete work ( called Prakarana )
containing both the verses and the author's comen-
tary and (ii) as a smaller hand-book containing the
verses only with the prose portion left out.
UDAYANA'S language, a faithful reflection of
his abstruse ideas, is generally stiff and terse. An
illuminating commentary bringing out the implica-
tions of each line and the hidden significance of
the context is often felt to be a necessity. Vardha-
mana's commentary, inspite of the great learning
displayed in its pages, is not of much help in this
respect, as it does not follow Udayana line by line
and phrase by phrase. Varadaraja's Bodhani however
is more useful from this point of view, as it is a
running commentary on the whole work. In view of
this fact I had it published more than 35 years ago,
from the Government Sanskrit College Banaras, as the
first work of the Saraswati Bhavana Texts Series.
Unfortunately the work was incomplete, being based
on an old manuscript of the College which did not
extend beyond the third chapter. This edition is
not now available. The inclusion of Varadaraja's
commentary in the present edition is therefore
welcome. Now that the last two chapters of Bodhani
are also available, it is expected that the publishers