Sarvadarshanasangraha 11.2

11.2

mānādhīnā meyasiddhir iti nyāyena pramāṇasya prathamam uddeśe tadanusāreṇa lakṣaṇasya kathanīyatayā prathamoddiṣṭasya pramāṇasya prathamaṃ lakṣaṇaṃ kathyate — sādhanāśrayāvyatiriktatve sati pramāvyāptaṃ pramāṇam/ evaṃ ca pratitantrasiddhāntasiddhaṃ parameśvaraprāmāṇyaṃ saṃgṛhītaṃ bhavati/ yad acakathat sūtrakāraḥ — mantrāyurvedaprāmāṇyavac ca tatprāmāṇyam āptaprāmāṇyāt iti/ tathā ca nyāyanayapārāvārapāradṛśvā viśvavikhyātakīrtir udayanācāryo 'pi nyāyakusumāñjalau caturthe stabake —

In accordance with the principle that "to know the thing to be measured you must first know the measure," "proof" (pramāṇa) is first enunciated, and as this must be done by defining it, we have first a definition of "proof." "Proof" is that which is always accompanied by right knowledge, and is at the same time not disjoined from the proper instruments [as the eye, &c.], and from the site of knowledge [i.e., the soul];[3] and this definition thus includes the peculiar tenet of the Nyāya School that God is a source of right knowledge,[4] as the author of the aphorisms has expressly declared (ii. 68), "and the fact of the Veda's being a cause of right knowledge, like spells and the medical science, follows from the fact that the fit one who gave the Veda was a source of right knowledge." And thus too hath the universally renowned teacher Udayana, who saw to the farthest shore of the ocean of logic, declared in the fourth chapter of the Kusumāñjali: