2022 · Q56
With reference to Indian history, consider the following pairs:
- 1.Aryadeva - Jaina scholar
- 2.Dignaga - Buddhist scholar
- 3.Nathamuni - Vaishnava scholar.
How many pairs given above are correctly matched?
- (a)None of the pairs
- (b)Only one pair
- (c)Only two pairs
- (d)All three pairs
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- Pair 1 is incorrectly matched. Aryadeva was a Buddhist, not a Jaina, scholar, the principal disciple of Nagarjuna and author of the Chatuhshataka, a foundational figure of the Madhyamaka school.
- Pair 2 is correctly matched. Dignaga was a Buddhist scholar, the founder of the Buddhist school of logic and epistemology, whose Pramanasamuchchaya reshaped Indian philosophical debate and drew responses from Brahmanical logicians for centuries.
- Pair 3 is correctly matched. Nathamuni was a Vaishnava scholar, the first of the Sri Vaishnava acharyas, who recovered and organised the Tamil hymns of the Alvars into the Nalayira Divya Prabandham and established their liturgical use in temple worship. Exactly two pairs are correct, giving (c).
- Option (d) requires accepting Aryadeva as a Jaina, option (b) requires rejecting one of the two sound pairs, and option (a) rejects all three.
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