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 philosophers like Srivatsa. This is the first critically edited complete publication of the work eagerly awaited by traditional as well as modern scholars of Nyaya in India and abroad.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anantalal Thakur
Anantalal Thakur (b. 1916), the doyen of Indian Philosophy, is an internationally known authority on Nyaya, Vaisesika, Buddhist and Jaina systems of philosophy as well as on manuscriptology. He was Professor of Sanskirt at Mithila Research Institute, Mithila, Prakrit Jain Institute, Vaisali, Kameshwar Singh Sanskrit University, Darbhanga, and Burdwan University. He was the Director of K.P. Jaiswal Research Institute, Patna and the Research Director both at The Asiatic Society and Sitaramdas Omkarnath Research Institute in Calcutta. He has thrown new light on different branches of Indological Studies and presented invaluable source material for the young researchers of today through his large number of books and research papers published during the last five decades. He is the recipient of Certificate of Honour for Sanskirt by the President of India (1991). The title of Mahamahopadhyaya was conferred on him by Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (Deemed University) in 1996 in recognition of his life-time contribution to Sanskrit Studies. His major publications include: Jnanasrimitranibandhavali; Ratnakirtinibandavali; Nyayalankara of Abhayatilaka; Nyayacaturgranthika; Tatparyavivaranapanjika of Aniruddha; Srikanthatippanaka; Vaisesikavarttika of Bhattavadindra and Gangavamsanucarita. His recent study on the Scientific Knowledge in the Mahabharata is a landmark in the history of Indological studies.
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