Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s6.12

c32.s6.12

Raghunātha Śiromaṇi was the founder of a School of Logicians adorned by many famous names up to recent times. Among these may be mentioned Mathurānatha (*c.* a.d. 1570) who wrote many valuable works on Logic which are known by the general name of *Māthurī*; Rāmabhadra (*c.* a.d. 1680), himself the founder of a school which produced scholars of the stamp of Jayarāma Nyāya-pañchānana and Jagadīśa Tarkālaṅkāra, author of the famous work “Śabda-śakti-prakāśikā”; and Gadādhara Bhaṭṭāchārya (*c.* a.d. 1650) of Lakshmipasa in Bogra district of Eastern Bengal, who joined the school of Harirāma Tarkavāgīśa at Nadia and became its head after his death. Gadādhara is described as “the prince of Indian Logicians”, who carried to its highest stage of development the subject of New Logic by his numerous works forming a special literature called *Gādādharī*. Some of the later scholars who shed lustre on Nadia and continued its traditions are mentioned below:—
(1) Harirāma Tarka-siddhānta (about a.d. 1730).
(2) Ramanārāyaṇa Tarka-pañchānana (about a.d. 1760).
(3) “Buno” Rāmanātha (probably 1770) [so called because he had his school in a wood (*vana*)].
(4) Krishṇakānta Vidyāvāgīśa (probably a.d. 1780).
(5) Śaṅkara Tarkavāgīśa (about a.d. 1800).
(6) Śivanātha Vidyāvāchaspati (a.d. 1810).
(7) Kāśīnātha Chūḍāmaṇi (about a.d. 1820).
(8) Daṇḍī (about a.d. 1830).
(9) Śrīrāma-Śiromaṇi (author of “Padārtha-tattva”).