Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c15.17

c15.17

These Madura teachers were engaged in giving a course of instruction in Vedānta. The lectures fell into four groups Argumentation, Knowledge, Evidence and Faith. Speaking about the method how philosophical studies were pursued, Fr. de Nobili says that the whole course was divided into three parts the first dealing with evidence, the second with knowledge and the third with authority. Each of these parts was divided into smaller divisions which the Jesuit Father noted down with great care.¹²