Debate And Independent Reasoning Vs Tradition On Precarious Position Of Early Nyaya

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Elements of the jackal's self-description are taken up in a speech on honourable and dishonourable persons by Bhisma directed to Yudhisthira in the Anušāsanaparvan; the Veda-censuring Brahmin who is described there is equated with a dog in this context. Cf. MBh 13.37.11-14:
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apramanyam ca vedänām fästrāṇām cätilanghanam sarvatra canavasthanam etan nāśanam ātmanaḥ // 11 // bhaver panditamani yo brahmano vedanindakaḥ/ anviksikin tarkavidyam anurakto nirarthikām // 12 // hetuvädän bruvan satsu vijetā hetuvädikaḥ akroştă câtivaktă ca brāhmaṇānām sadaiva hi // 13 // sarvabhisanki müḍhaś ca balaḥ katukavāg api/ boddhavyas tādṛśas täta naravanam hi tam viduḥ // 14 // 13ab is interpreted differently in MESQUITA 2000, 126 (n. 215). For the situation of 12.173.46ab cf. 14.87.1 (= B 14.85.27):
tasmin yajne pravṛtte tu vägmino hetuvädinah' / hetuvädän bahan prähuh? parasparajigisavah II Relevant variants:
1M: brahmavadinaḥ
2D,: devavädän
3Dc: hetuvädänukälät tu
Cf. again VIDYABHUSANA 1920, 39 and 1930, xviii (original introduction p. xv); THAKUR 1974, 404. Cf. also Rāmāyaṇa (R) 1.13.14:
karmântare tada viprå hetuvädän bahan api / prahuḥ suvänmino dhirah parasparajigiṣayā //
and MBh 2.33.3-4.
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Debate and Independent Reasoning vs. Tradition
NBh (CalSS) Nyayabhäşya, in Nyayadarsanam with Vätsyāyana's Bhasya, Uddyotakara's Värttika, Vācaspati Misra's Tatparyafika & Visvanatha's Vṛtti, Vol. I, ed. TARANATHA NYAYA-TARKATIRTHA and AMARENDRAMOHAN TARKATIRTHA, Calcutta 1936; Vol. II, ed. AMARENDRAMOHAN TARKATIRTHA and HEMANTAKUMAR TARKATIRTHA, Calcutta 1944.
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ABBREVIATIONS
Arthasästra, as edited in R.P. KANGLE, The Kautilya Arthasästra, Part I, Bombay 1960.
Ayurvedadipika, in The Caraka Samhita of Agnivesa... With the AyurvedaDipika Commentary of Cakrapanidatta, ed. GANGASAHAYA PANDEYA, Varanasi 1983 (KSS 194, actually a remake of the 3rd Nirnaya Sagar Press edition, ed. JADAVAJI TRIKAMI, Bombay 1941).
Anandāśrama Sanskrit Series.
*Upayahṛdaya, Taisho ed., Vol. 32, No. 1632.
Kashi Sanskrit Series. Calcutta Sanskrit Series. Carakasamhita, see AVD.
Nyayakumudacandra of Prabhacandra, ed. MAHENDRA KUMAR, Vol. I. Bombay 1938.
Nyayabhasya, in Nyayadarsana of Gautama with the Bhasya of Vatsyayana, the Värttika of Uddyotakara, the Tätparyafika of Vacaspati & the Parisuddhi of Udayana, ed. ANANTALAL THAKUR, Vol. I: Chapter I, Darbhanga 1967.
Nyayabhaṣaṇa of Bhasarvajña, ed. YOGINDRANANDA, Varanasi 1968.
Nyayamañjarī of Jayantabhatta with Tippani - Nyayasaurabha by the Editor, ed. K.S. VARADACHARYA, Vol. I, Mysore 1969.
The Nyayamanjari of Jayanta Bhatta, ed. GANGADHARA SASTRI TAILANGA, Part 1, Benares 1895.
Cakradhara's Nyayamañjarīgranthibhanga, ed. NAGIN J. SHAH, Ahmedabad 1972.
Nyayavārtika, cf. NBh.
Nyayavarttikatätparyafika, cf. NBh.
Nyayavärttikatätparyaparituddhi, cf. NBh.
Nyayasutra, as edited in RUBEN 1928.
Pramaṇamimämsä of Hemacandra, ed. SUKHALALJI SANGHAVI, MAHENDRA KUMAR SASTRI and DALSUKH MALVANIA NYAYA TIRTHA, 2 edition, Ahme dabad 1989.