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ANALOGY
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Thus in Ahnika II Jayanta completely covers his treatment of the three pramānas perception, inference and analogy posited by the Nyāya school; there now remains to be covered just verbal testimony which is the fourth pramāņa posited here. And their fourth pramāņa is somehow going to engage Jayanta's attention throughout the space of Ahnikas III-VI which he yet devotes to the first Nyāya padārtha pramāņa; (in Ahnikas VII-XII there are taken up the remaining fifteen padārthas). Really, however, the most important things to be said about verbal testimony will be said towards the beginning of Ahnika III itself, and if to them is added the immediately forthcoming discussion on intrinstic-vs-extrinsic validity of cognition Jayanta will then be finishing his coverage of the most important logical problems. For what thereafter follows is a discussion either on a relatively minor logical problem or on an ontological problem or on an ethicotheological problem. Each set of discussions has its own value, but this much advance information should facilitate our task of assessing the performance Jayanta puts up in the various parts of his text.
