The University of Nalanda c7.90

c7.90

"which the monastic teacher could place before the hungry intellect of the inquiring student was a morsel of Logic." Logic, however, was not studied for its own sake. The student had some higher ideal before him, and that ideal was the realisation of the truth or true knowledge. Here we find that the Indian student had something in common with his European brother. Let us see by what imperceptible steps, the student, who embarked upon the study of Logic, gained his ideal. "Yet no sooner does he approach it", continues the same author,¹ "than the student finds himself led by imperceptible steps from Logic into Physics and from Physics into Metaphysics and from Metaphysics into Theology." *Nyāya* system had no other object than this. For among other things, in the list of things to be Proved, we find such things as Soul and Emancipation.² This, in fact, was the ultimate goal of all systems of Logic that sprung after Gotama. The Jain³ manuals of Logic set forth the same aim, the goal to be realised.