The University of Nalanda c7.145

c7.145

The earliest reference to Logic and an explicit one, is to be found in Milindapañha, also known as the Bhikṣusūtra whose date is fixed at about 100 A.D.⁴ Next to this work, we have to start with the works of Nāgārjuna, as we did in our survey of Buddhist Philosophy. In his Mādhyamika-kārikā, which is the first work of the Mādhyamika Philosophy, he occasionally refers to certain technicalities of Logic, such as, the fallacy of the Sādhyasama (petitio principii) in Chapter IV.⁵ Other works : Yukli-ṣastika-kārikā, Vigrahavyāvartanī-kārikā, as their very names connote, establish with the help of Logic abstruse and subtle principles of Mādhyamika Philosophy.⁶