The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c31.120

v1.c31.120

Such was the programme of philosophy followed in Madura in the beginning of the 17th century according to Fr. de Nobili. It was according to him a profound philosophy, but very different from scholastic philosophy¹. The course is properly a course of Logic, a kind of Tarkabhasa or science of reasoning, though much confused with psychological and metaphysical notions. This kind of Logic evidently belongs to the Syncretist school consequent upon the attempts of Sivaditya to amalgamate the earlier systems. The influence of the Tarkabhasa of Kesava Misra is quite evident, as well as that of the works of Annam Bhatta, who was at this time probably living².