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The Nyaya Sutra of Gotama is an important treatise on Indian logic and is regarded as the earliest work of Nyaya philosophy. Written in the aphoristic style, it is believed to have been comprised by Gotama, Gautama or Aksapada who is also considered to be the founder of the Nyaya system of philosophy. That the Nyaya Sutra was an important work is also evident from the numerous commentaries on the text which were written through centuries. The Nyaya Sutra is ...
The volume offers the history of Nyaya-one of the six schools into which orthodox philosophy in India is divided. The word. 'Logic' although it is in common parlance held synonymous with Indian Nyaya, is not exactly indentical with it. Logic covers some of the subjects of Nyaya as well as Vaisesika but is not co-extensive with either. The author has in this work clearly marked the principal stages of Indian logic in the vast period of about two thousand years ...