The University of Nalanda c7.87

c7.87

The religious side of the original system was not much cared for, but its technical side which deals with the subjects to be discussed, namely, the various Pramāṇas, etc., was greatly exploited by the Buddhist, Jain and Hindu pandits. Diṅnāga, and Dharmakīrti among the Buddhist made various improvements in Logic.² Diṅnāga, for instance, reduced the number of Pramāṇas to only two.³ Siddhasena Divākara⁴ composed many manuals in Logic, in which he sought to refute the Buddhist logicians. Nyāya, more properly Tarka, was used by propounders and propagandists of different religious philosophies,—the Buddhist, Jain and Hindu, to attack their opponents' system.