Tattva-Chintamani Of Gangesa Upadhyaya (Vol. I)
Tattva-Chintamani Of Gangesa Upadhyaya (Vol. I)

Author: Kamakhya Natha Tarkavagisa (ed. By) Eng. Introd. By S.C. Vidyabhusana

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 926

ISBN-13: 9788120825499

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About the Book : The present book comprises the Pratyaksa Khanda (section on perception), one of the four sections of Tattvacintamani of Gangesa Upadhyaya (1200 A.D.). This section is divided into twenty-five sub-sections, from mangalavada to Savikalpakav

Gaṅgeśa's Theory of Truth
Gaṅgeśa's Theory of Truth

Author: Gaṅgeśa

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9788120806184

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This book is a study on Gangesa`s Pramanavada, and contains a free English translation of the Sanskrit text. This study clarifies the concept of truth in Indian philosophy, especially in the Mimamsa and the Nyaya systems and attempts a critical appraisal of the pramanya theories. Not much attention has been paid by scholars to a precise explication of the concept of truth in Indian philosophy. This work throws light on this and clarifies the concepts, and clarifies the amazingly complicated simple question: Is pramanya svatah or paratah? This is one of those question: Is pramanya svatah or paratah? This is one of those questions to which every school worth the name came forward with an official answer. Arguments and counter-arguments were produced in never-ending stream. This work clarifies the nature of the issue around which the theories centre, and then examines the nature of the arguments that have been advanced by the different schools in support of their contentions Gangesa`s great contribution; to the problem has been brought to the foreground.

A Time of Novelty
A Time of Novelty

Author: Samuel Wright

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0197568165

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"This book argues that a philosophical community emerges in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India that crafts an intellectual life on the basis of intellectual and emotional responses to novelty in Sanskrit logic (nyāya-śāstra). As the book demonstrates, novelty was a primary concept used by Sanskrit logicians during this period to mark the boundaries of a philosophical community in both intellectual and emotional terms. This concept was expressed in their texts through the use of terms such as old and new when discussing certain philosophical opinions, signaling that periodization was a major component of their philosophy. By retaining space for emotion when studying intellectual thought, this book recovers not only what it means to 'think' novelty but also what it means to 'feel' novelty. Studying little-known essays by Sanskrit logicians in early modernity, the book explores the contours of what is termed 'intellectual novelty' and 'affective novelty' in Sanskrit logic-expressions of novelty in which is contained both cognitive and emotional content that, taken together, constitute intellectual life"--