The University of Nalanda c10.100

c10.100

Another way in which the University tried to convey its teachings to the intelligentsia was by composition of encyclopædical works dealing with Theology, Philosophy, Logic, Grammar, etc. One such work that we are fortunate to recover is *Tattvasaṅgraha*² together with a most illuminating commentary on it called the *Pañjikā*. Śāntarakṣita wrote the text, while Kamalaśīla, his pupil, wrote the commentary. While speaking about Nālandā's contribution to the development of Logic we said that Śāntarakṣita was a famous logician of the 8th century A.D. In this work we find him and his pupil as versatile philosophers who not only survey all the past as well as the contemporary philosophical systems but even refute them one by one and thus strengthen the foundations of *Vijñānavāda* laid down by Asaṅga.