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Between Vatsyayana and Vacaspati, the Nyayabhasyavarttika reigns supreme as the only work by Udyotkara. It explains, true to the definition of varttika, nearly every word of the Nyayabhasya, adds fresh elements and sometimes criticizes the earlier position. In this work, it is claimed, the original views of Aksapada, the father of Nyaya, have been rescued from the onslaught of 'bad logicians' with Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu and Dignaga. Concerning doubt, ...
This volume attempts to provide a better recension of the Nyayadarsana of Aksapada with the Bhasya of Vatsyayana based on important materials, manuscripts, printed texts, commentaries and other relevant sources. The relation of the Nyayadarsana with the Vaisesikadarsana of Kanada, Yogadarsana of Patanjali, Arthasastra of Kautilya and the Yogacara-Vijnanavada branch of Buddhist philosophy has been delineated. The three phases of the orthodox Indian logic have been ...
The eleventh-century classic, Nyayavarttikatatparyaparisuddhi, forms the fourth tier of that quartet of commentaries, Nyayacaturgranthika, which has been regarded for more than nine hundred years as the central corpus of ancient Nyaya. Apart from analyzing nearly every line of Vacaspati's Tatparyatika, this vast yet tersely written gloss adds fresh philosophical insights engaging in debates with Buddhist stalwarts like Jnanasrimitra and with ...
The volumes of the project on the history of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way. These volumes, in spite of their unitary look, recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ...
