The Tattvacintamani, or Jewel of reflection on the Truth (about epistemology), is the sole composition left us by the great fourteenth century Indian logician Gangesa Upadhyaya. With this foundational text Gangesa solidified the "New" (navya) phase of the long-running school of epistemology and metaphysics known in India as nyaya. The present work is a translation of the perception chapter (Pratyaksa-khanda) of this important text. The authors have provided an introduction covering essential theoretical and historical background, and a comparison of Nyaya with western epistemological traditions. The translation is augmented with a detailed running commentary which presents further background, contextualization, analysis, and comparison. Includes a glossary explaining in English every Sanskrit word used, brief characterizations of persons and schools, and a detailed index.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya, formerly Vice Chancellor, Tirupati Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, has Honor for excellence in Sanskrit and Philosophy, and is widely recognized as one of India's greatest masters of Sanskrit in all areas. He is author of Pratyaksatattvacintamani Vimarsa (1992) as well as numerous research papers in Sanskrit, and has edited critically in three volumes the perception and inference chapters of Gangesa's Tattvacintamani along with the commentaries of Rucidatta and Ramakrsnadhvarin (1972,1982, and 1999).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen H. Phillips
Stephen H. Phillips is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman (1986) and Classical Indian Metaphysics (1995); Indian edition, 1996), as well as more than fifty research papers. He is editor of Philosophy of Religion: A Global Appraoch (1996) and co-editor of three other volumes, Professor Phillips received his doctorate from Harvard University.
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