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rest, i, e., Āhnikas V-XII, will be published in two more volumes. In the beginning, we have given, in a separate sectiom, a summary in Sanskrit of all the important issues discussed in the body of the text. We have added three sections in the end dealing with (i) an index of proper names, (ii) an index showing the identifications of the quotations and (iii) an index containing the different literary expressions bearing eloquent testimony to the humorous style in which the author revels in referring to rival philosophers.
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The Sūtras of Gotama together with the Bhāşya of Vatsyayana, the Vārttika of Uddyolakara, the Tātparyațīkā of Vácaspati Misra and the Tātparyaparisuddhi of Udayanācārya form the cardinal texts of the older school of Indian logic (prācīna nyāya) Though the Nyāyamañjari of Jayantabhatta has found its place of honour in the curriculum of Nyāyastudy in our country during the past few decades, it may be mentioned that in the earlier decades of the present century eminent traditional scholars were not familiar with the text the value and importance of which is comparable to the ślokavārttika of Kumārila and the Pramāņa-vārttika of Dharmakirti.
Jayantabhatta is a most redoubtable champion of the Nyāya system of Indian philosophy. But, his is a versatile personality beaming with a catholicity of out-look so very rare in scholars of any age and clime. It is remarkable that as he surveys, analyzes and elucidates the views of his opponents, he does it with matchless precision and integrity leaving no chance for a complaint that the presentation is not upto the mark or misleading. It is more often than not that he restates the views of his opposite schools with such clarity of exposition as may not be available in their own texts. But, he
