Bhāvasena was a Jain philosopher of the

Digambara ''Digambara'' (; "sky-clad") is one of the two major Jain schools and branches, schools of Jainism, the other being ''Śvetāmbara'' (white-clad). The Sanskrit word ''Digambara'' means "sky-clad", referring to their traditional monastic pract ...

school who lived in

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during the late 13th and early 14th century. His ''Viśvatattvaprkāśa'' is particularly important for its systematic questioning of the validity of the

Vedic upright=1.2, The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the '' Atharvaveda''. The Vedas ( or ; ), sometimes collectively called the Veda, are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed ...

tradition. In his ''Collected papers on Jaina studies'', P. S. Jaini gave an account of Bhāvasena and his ''Muktivicāra'' and ''Bhuktivicāra'', with translations. 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Kyoto, 2009, refers to a paper delivered by Robert Zydenbos on Bhāvasena's ''Viśvatattvaprkāśa'', but that work remains unpublished.Centre for Jaina Studies, SOAS, ''CoJS Newsletter'', issue 5 (March 2010), p. 15

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