Nyayakusumanjali of Udayanacarya (Volume 1)

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Nyayakusumanjali, one of the most important author-works of the Nyaya philosophy is composed by Udayanacarya, the great ancient Indian thinker, commentator, author and a master-stylist in recondite Sanskrit prose. This work is one of the two major magna opera of Udayanacarya, the other being Amatattvaviveka, which is wholly devoted to a thorough criticism of all the basic doctrines of Buddhism. Unlike Amatattvaviveka, Nyayakusumanjali is primarily concerned with the exposition and argumentative defence of the Nyaya doctrines-especially those relating to its methodology-against the corresponding but opposed doctrines of Mimamsa and Vaisesika. A unique feature of this work is that it brings forward a large number of inferential proofs to establish the reality of God, which is almost a totally-neglected topic in all the earlier basic works on Nyaya. Even the aphorisms of Gotama, supposed to be the primary source of Nyaya philosophy, make only a passing and oblique reference to God in a single aphorism. Udayanacarya is perhaps the first great Naiyayika of ancient India who introduced theism in a big way both in the Nyaya and the Vaisesika Schools of Indian philosophy. In the first volume of Nyayakusumanjali, passage by passage, while in the second volume, he has presented an analytical-critical survey of the contents of the whole work.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR N.S. Dravid

Narayan Shastri Dravid (b.1923) is an eminent philosopher well-versed in both Indian and wester trastions of philosophy. He was trained in Navya-Nyaya by stalwarts like the late Panditaraja Rajesvara Sastri and his pulil, the late Harirama sastri. He studied Buddhism and western philosophy at Banaras hindu University. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree for his work on “Nyaya Epistemology”. He taught philosophy at Nagpur University for more than two decades. He also worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii, USA , for a couple of years, Professor Dravid was a fellow at the Indian Council of Philosophical Research and also at the Indian Institute of advanced Study, Shimla. He has published a large number of scholarly papers in reputed journals in English, Hindi and Marathi. His publications include Atmatattvaviveka and Nyayakusumanjali (in tow volumes) of Udayanacarya. At present Professor Dravid is engaged in preparing a critical and comprehensive English rendering of Dharmakiriti’s Pramanavarttika

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Title
Nyayakusumanjali of Udayanacarya (Volume 1)
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
818563629X
Length
xiii+500p., Glossary 25cm.
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