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74. Nyaya-pravesa, or the earliest work extant on 



Buddhist Logic by Dignaga. 



By MAHiMAHOi>ADHYAYA SaTIS ChANDKA ViDYAHHU§ANA, M.A 



The Njaya-prnvesa is a work on Biiddliist Logic by Uigna^a 



( S^^'9]^' ). The Sanskrit original of this work is lost. A Tib- 

 etan version of it is contained in the Tangyur, Mdo, Ce (folios 183- 

 188). The work in Tibetan is called Tshad-ma-rigs-par-hjng- 



pahi-sgo ( Cb^'^'-^^^'^^'^l^'^^'lj ) signifying*' Entrance 



to Logic/' or rather, the *' Door of Rnfrance to Loij^ic." The work 

 was translated into Tibetan by the Kasmirian Paadita Sarvajna- 

 srl-rakeita and the S'dkya monk Graqfs-pa-rgyal-uitshau-dpal-bzaa, 

 in the great Sn-skya monastery of Western Tibet. 



It. opens thus ^ : 



" Demonstration and refutation together with their fallacies 

 are for arguing against others; and perception and inference to- 

 gether with their fallacies are for self-understanding : so this 

 lustra is compiled.'" 



Demonstration or reasoning is carried on by means of a subject 



(also called the minor term, X{1^ or yf^«J ^^^ or (5^'^f3J\ 

 a predicate (also called the major term, W\^ o^' ^^ ^ctJ"^'^^' 





or cB^ ) reason (also called the mark or middle term. |%^ or ^g^ 

 ^^T^^^), and examples ( f ^^T^fT ^-I'^t^ ) as follows:— 



i 



s^-f'^^'^'g^'^3^"nii 





N3 



(Nyaya-prareSa) 



