274 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Sept., 1915, 
The Nyaya-siddhanta-maiijart must be considerably older 
that Samvat 1717 or 1660 a.p., the date of a MS. of a commen. 
tary on the work, the Siddhanta-maiijari-tippanam of Siromani 
Bhattacarya.! How much older the work was there is no means 
at present of knowing. But from its wide popularity before 
the third quarter of the seventeenth century, and from its 
non-mention of the famous Raghunatha Siromani or of bis — 
works, its author would seem to have been a near contemporay 
of the said Raghunatha. He might be placed tentatively in the 
first half of the sixteenth century, if not earlier. 
3. RAGHUNATHA TARKIKA SIROMANI. 
The real founder of the Gauriya school of Navya Nyaya 
He wrote a number of works, but his fame rests mainly on two, — 
and Prajicah, the Navinah and Navyah, Sampradaya) 
Sampradaya-vidah, and the various systems, we come across 
Acaryah (? Udayanacarya), Upadhyayah, Taikiakir-annyiiyina 
(Vacaspati Misra and followers), Tatparya-tikayam... _ Misra, 
Nyayacaryah, Mandana-mat-anuyayinah (followers of Mandan 
Misra’s views) and Ratnakosa-krt. 
The Didhiti poured new wine into the old bottle, aud 
created a ferment in Bengal that lasted for not less han # 
century and a half. Manuscripts of the work, specially 1 | 
Anumana-khanda, are found scattered not only in Bengal bit 
im various other partsof India. It was sub-commented by mat! 
writers, at least a dozen and half, of whom the majority an 
from provinces outside Bengal. -_ thandanat 
(ii) The Padartha-tattva-nirwpanam or Padartha-khantn 
+his 18 an acute criticism of the categories given in the 
Sesika system and is highly controversial in nature. : 
closely studied in later times, and was commented upon 
more than half a dozen Tikakaras, chiefly Bengalis. 
In addition Raghunatha wrote :— rts 
(iii) The Kiranavah-prakasa-didhiti, or °vivyli, in pnt ee 
Dravya and Guna, giving a running criticism on the _ 
! Peterson’s fifth Re . TI. ‘ Bi 
The Diiadinade os less bean. rica in Calcutta (Sarva Lg | 
see Weak rrp thereof, the Najia-vada and the ae tn refer 
once are 6 thee peated works, nnn 
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