Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t2.6

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Its earliest form is associated with ancient Brahmin argumentation about sacrifice. Brahmanism has a very ancient origin in India, and at its early stage in particular, believed that “sacrifice is omnipotent”. Its sacrifice had various forms and very complicated procedures. In ancient India, religious doctrines and sacrificial procedures were passed on mainly through oral means and with time going, followers might remember and say differently and debate thus would occur. Objectively, this might make people strive to find out a fixed form of inference and corresponding logic rules. Ancient Hetuvidya is the earliest of such reference and logic rules.