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Navyanyāya

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Swami Harshananda

Origin of Navyanyāya[edit]

The Nyāya Darśana or the Nyāya school of philosophy has provided a strong basis and framework for logic. A new school of Nyāya philosophy under the name ‘Navyanyāya’ began with the writings of Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya[1] of Mithilā in Bihar and his successors.

Points of Tattvacintāmaṇi[edit]

Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya wrote a work called Tattvacintāmaṇi wherein he has dwelt with only the four pramāṇas or means of knowledge. They are:

Commentators of Tattvacintāmaṇi[edit]

He did not touch the prameya[2] at all. Somehow this work attracted an unusually great attention of the scholars first at Mithilā and later at Navadvīpa of Bengal. The chief commentators of this work of Gaṅgeśa are:

  • Raghunātha Śiromaṇi[3]
  • Mathurā Bhaṭṭācārya[4]
  • Gadādhara Bhatṭācārya[5]
  • Jagadiśa Bhaṭtācārya[6]

Other Navyanyāya[edit]

Later on, several sub-commentaries on the commentary of Raghunātha Śiro­maṇi arose along with independent works on the same object thus enriching the Navya-nyāya literature. The contribution of Navya-nyāya was mainly in the direction of developing a system of linguistic notations to specify accurately and precisely any concept. The other aspects of Nyāya Darśana were practically untouched.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ He lived in A. D. 1200
  2. ↑ Prameya means objects to be known.
  3. ↑ He lived in A. D. 1500.
  4. ↑ He lived in A. D. 1580.
  5. ↑ He lived in A. D. 1650.
  6. ↑ He lived in A. D. 1590.
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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