Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.28

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.28

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c8.s5.28

A shift in the concept of categories occurs in Raghunātha Śiromaṇi (CE 1500). In his *Padārthatattavanirūpaṇa*, he reduced the number by denying *abhāva* as a category. He was criticized by Veṇīdatta in his *Padārthamaṇḍana* who accepts only four positive categories.⁴⁴

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Padārthamaṇḍana — Venīdatta 1695, Sanskrit