136 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 1919.] 
sophy was similar to that of Pyrrho in Greek tradition, who 
visited India and studied philosophy under the Gymnosophists 
in the 4th century B.C. His contribution was a negative or 
destructive one, as it aimed at avoiding all dogmatic conclusions. 
He was the first to maintain a neutral attitude towards the 
As ee Sanjaya acd to the sophistic period, 
and his doctrine was unintelligible except in relation to the 
teachings of Pakudha Kaccayana and Ajita Kesakamballi. 
