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century A.D.), Māṇikyanandi’s *Parīkṣāmukhasūtra* (A.D. 800), Devasūri’s *Pramāṇanayatattvālokālaṃkāra* (twelfth century A.D.) and Prabhācandra’s *Prameyakamalamārtaṇḍa*. The Jaina thinkers and the Buddhist logicians differentiated logical inquiries from those of religion and metaphysics, with which they were mixed up in the discussions of the Hindu writers. The Nyāya works of the latter treat of atoms and their properties, souls and rebirth, God and the world, as well as logical problems of the nature and limits of knowledge. The Buddhist and the Jaina thinkers showed no interest in the metaphysical implications of the ancient Nyāya, but laid great stress on the purely logical aspects, and thus prepared the way for the modern Nyāya, which is pure logic and dialectic.