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tented to rest all our weight on the one Brahma, identical with 
thought, established by its own evidence.’ ! 
padhyaya and commented upon by hisson Var/dhamana Hence 
+t must be older than these. Some verses of his Naisadha-caritam 
than 1206 a.v., the date of that anthology. The Khandana- 
khanda-khadya quotes from the rhetorical work, the Vyakti- 
vweka of Mahima Bhatta, and from the Vydya-kusum-anjali of 
Udayanacarya. It must therefore be later than tenth century. 
Furthermore, according to Rajasekhara Siri’s Prabandha-kos 
(1348 a.p.), Sriharsa flourished in the court of king Jayanta- 
candra, who is evidently identical with the king Jayacandra 
of Kanauja, crowned in 1170 a.v., and killed by Sahabuddin 
in 1194 a.p. In the Khandana-khanda-khadya itself Sriharsa 
speaks of having received an Asana and a pair of betels as prize 
orv-isa-kula-prasasti, which, according to the commentato: 
Gopinatha, was composed in praise of the king Vijayasem 
According to the Purusa-pariksa of Vidyapati,” Sriharsa lived 
in Gauravisaya, a fact that explains the origin of the above 
pom. So his time falls in the third ouarter of the twelfth cet 
ury. 
B. THE MAITHILI SCHOOL. 
1. GANGESOPADHYAYA. 
The founder of the Navya-Nyaya School. He wrote - 
Taitva-cinta-mani or the thought-jewel of truths. Accepting 
Gotama’s four-fold classification of proofs (pramana), the work 
is divided into the following sections :— 
Pratyaksa or perception ; ; 
_ 2. Anumiana or inference with a special subsection ° 
Isvar-Anumana or the inference about God; 
on. 
These sections are further sub-divided into vadas ot ds 
cussions, pratyaksa having twelve, anumana seventee? and 
Sabda sixteen, upamana having none. 
rangesa passes in review the whole field of Nyay® 
fends it against the attacks of other systems, whose rs 
criticises vigorously and often with novel and original Ter the 
The Sankhya and the Vaisesika are criticised least; - the 
. . 
Mimamsakas, special y its two schools, the Bhattas . 
d de 
ews be 
! Cowell’s translation, J.A.S.B. 1 
, J.A.S.B. 1862, p. 389. aia 
2 See the Purusa-pariksa, Medhavi-katha :—q¥4a aysfaaa 
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