Nyayakusumanjali: Hindu Rational Enquiry into the Existence of God

Nyayakusmanjali is a classic work on the logical inquiry into the existence of God by Udayanacarya, a Hindu philosopher-theologian of the 10th-11th century. Exhaustive interpretative exposition of Udayana’s auto-commentary has been a demanding necessity, owing to the difficult nature of the work involving terse logical subtitles, for the students of Hindu theology. The text has been divided into five chapters. In the first four chapters objections advanced by the opponents against the existence of God have been analysed and refuted, and the proponent’s standpoint is stated. The fifth, the last chapter of the text, advances the positive proofs for the existence of God. In the translation of the karikas and in the interpretative exposition of Udayana’s auto-commentary main emphasis is laid on bringing out the contents of the text, some of which is known but most of which is hidden behind the text, due to the difficult nature of expression, analysis and methodology followed in the composition of the work.