[citation needed] Jayanta's birth year, lifespan, dates of his written works are a subject of scholarly debates.
[citation needed] His philosophical work Nyāyamañjarī as well as his drama Āgamaḍambara, refer to King Sankaravarman (883 – 902 CE) as a contemporary.
It says his ancestor Shakti was a Gaur Brahmin and a direct patriline descendant of Bharadwaja gotra from the Bengal, who lived in Darvabhisara, near the border of Kashmir.
[4][6] Saktisvämin, the great grandfather of Jayanta, was a minister of Kashmir Lalitaditya Muktapida of the Karkota dynasty (c. 724 – 761 CE).
Jayanta mentions in Nyayamanjari that his grandfather obtained a village named Gauramulaka, believed to have been located north of the modern town of Rajouri, from King Muktapida.
Jayanta claimed the Nilambara "wear simply one blue garment, and then as a group engages in unconstrained public sex".
[citation needed] His first, the Nyayamanjari (A Cluster of Flowers of the Nyaya tree) is a commentary on Nyaya-aphorisms that serves as a critique of the theories of rival philosophical systems like the Mīmānsādarśana.
The hero of his quasi-philosophical drama is a young graduate of the Mimansa school, who wants to defeat all opponents of Vedas through reasoning.