i ~z ox Tin: philost>p; 



restored to. a human shape by the great R ; mid' 



a sage of his name, whom we have no reason to 

 suppose a different personage, is frequently men- 

 tioned in the Veda itself: to his rational doctrines 

 those of Canada were in general conformable ; and 

 the philosophy of them both is usually called Nyaxa, 

 or logical : a title aptly bestowed ; for it seems to be a 

 system oi metaphysics and logic better accommo- 

 dated than any other anciently known in India, to. 

 the natural reason and common sense of mankind, 

 admitting the actual existence of material substance in 

 the popular acceptation of the word matter ; and 

 comprising not only a body of sublime dialectics, 

 but an artificial method of reasoning, with distinct 

 names for the three parts of a proposition, and even 

 ford: ': of a regular syllogism. Here I cannot re- 

 frain foam introducing a singular tradition, which 

 . :cording to the well-informed author of 

 the Dabistan, in the Panjab and in several Persian 

 provinces ; that, " among other Indian curiosities, 

 i4 which C ■" llis'tiii nj-s transmitted to his uncle, 

 * ; was a technical system of hgi&± which the Brahmens 

 " had communicated to the inquisitive Greek" and 

 the 'Mohammedan, writer supposes to have been 

 the ground work of I nous Arislollean method. 



true, it is one of the most interesting facts 



net with in Asia : and if it be false, it is 



rdiaary that such a story should have 



■abricared ekl ., ! , the candid Moms an t Fdm x 



simple / .nd Pandits, with whom he 



had cc _d ; bur, not having had leisure to stun 



the. 



