The University of Nalanda c10.76

c10.76

Apart from his contribution to Logic, it is interesting to note how he looks at the whole process of inference. He says, "*Sarvoyam anumānānumeyavyavahāro buddhyārūḍhenaiva dharma-dharmibhāvena na bahiḥsadasattvam apekṣate.*" From this Keith argues that Diṅnāga declares clearly that all the relations of probans and probandum have nothing whatever to do with external reality . . . but depend upon the intellect.¹ We can say thus that he belonged to the Idealist school of Āsaṅga and Vasubandhu, "according to which all appearances are but transformations of the principle of consciousness by its inherent movement, and none of our cognitions are produced by any external objects which to us seem to be existing outside of us and generating our ideas."²