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The University of Nalanda c11.127

The University of Nālandā c11.127

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c11.127

The very names of the works are enough to show their character. They are evidently Tāntric, which shows that more and more interest was taken in the development of this cult, even perhaps to the detriment of other studies. Our Candrogomin, however, appears to be a versatile writer. For, besides writing extensively on *Tantra*, he distinguished himself in literature, Grammar, Logic, Astronomy, Music, fine arts and the science of medicine.³ In Logic, particularly, next to *Tantra* he was so well-versed that he was the first from the Bengal school of logicians to attract the attention of the literary world.⁴