A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.28

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Turning next to philosophical literature, Vātsyāyana (*c.* 350-400), the author of the commentary on the *Nyāya-sūtras* of Gautama, is ascribed by tradition to South India. But the first writer on Nyāya definitely known to belong to South India is Varadarāja, the author of *Tārkikarakṣā* and of a commentary (*Bodhini*) on *Kusumāñjali* of Udayana; he lived most probably in the middle of the twelfth century. Aparārka’s commentary on the *Nyāyasāra* of Bhāsarvajña can be assigned to about the same date. The author was the Silāhāra ruler of Konkan, better known for his commentary on *Yājñavalkya-smṛiti*. Two commentaries were written on *Tarkabhāṣā*, one by the famous Mallinātha (thirteenth century) and the other by Chennubhaṭṭa (fourteenth century). The most popular manual of logic, *Tarkasaṅgraha* (*c.* 1625), and the gloss *Dīpikā* on it were the work of Annambhaṭṭa, a native of the Chittoor district who also wrote commentaries on other classics on this subject.