With reference to Indian history, consider the following pairs: (2022) Historical person Known as1. Aryadeva Jaina scholar2. Dignaga Buddhist scholar3. Nathamuni Vaishnavite scholar How many pairs given above are correctly matched?
✓ Correct answer: c) Only two pairs
ExplanationOption (c) is correct: Āryadeva was a Mahayana Buddhist monk, a disciple of Nagarjuna and a Madhyamaka His key work "Catuḥśataka" (Four Hundred Verses) elaborates on Madhyamaka philosophy.His writings are important sources of Madhyamaka in both East Asian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.Dignaga, a Buddhist logician and author of the Pramāṇasamuccaya (Compendium of the Means of Valid Knowledge) laid the foundations of Buddhist logic.Additional Information : Nathamuni (9th–10th century CE) was a Vaishnavite scholar and theologian.He is credited with compiling the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, a collection of hymns by Tamil Alvars, which became a foundational text in Sri Vaishnavism.He was also the guru of Yamunacharya and predecessor of Ramanuja in the Vishishtadvaita tradition.
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