Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t2.8

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The Nyaya School, as one of the six schools of Brahmin philosophy, was the first to satisfy such a demand and to make an important contribution to the establishment of Indian logic or Hetuvidya. The Nyaya Sutra, the earliest classic text for this school, was composed around 1ˢᵗ century CE by Gautama (or Gotama), and existing text, with later interpolations, was formed in about 3ʳᵈ to 4ᵗʰ centuries CE.