Question
Q56) With reference of Indian history Consider the following pairs:
History Person – Known as
- Aryadeva – Jaina Scholar
- Dignaga – BuddhisScholar
- Nathamuni – Vaishanava Scholar
How many pairs given above are correctly
- None of the Pairs
- Only one pair
- Only two pairs
- All Three Pairs
Answer: 3
Detailed Explanation
- Āryadeva (3rd century), a disciple of Nāgārjuna, is a central figure in the development of early Indian Madhyamika philosophy. The Madhyamika school of Buddhism, the followers of which are called Mādhyamikas, was one of the two principal schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Dignāga, (born c. 480 CE—died c. 540), was a Buddhist logician and author of the Pramāṇasamuccaya (“Compendium of the Means of True Knowledge”), a work that laid the foundations of Buddhist logic.
- Sri Ranganathamuni, popularly known as Sriman Nathamuni was a Vaishnava theologian who collected and compiled the Nalayira Divya Prabandham. Considered the first of Sri Vaishnava acharya, Nathamuni is also the author of Yogarahasya, And Nyayatattva.