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early age. Kamakhya Nath evinced in the days of his 
oapilene: those canaasetdnntel qualities of the head which 
have won for him the foremost rank among Pundits in this 
country. At the tender age of fourteen he left his native village 
for Navadwipa in order to prosecute his studies in Nydya, and 
there his intellect derived its principal sap and nourishment 
from the great classical soil of Sanskrit learning. He read 
Nydya with the late Mahémahopadhyaya Bhuban | Mohan 
Vidydratna, and was dubbed by him with the title of ‘* Tarka- 
vdgisa.’’ After finishing his course of studies in Smriti and 
. . * 
Kamakhya Nath has been highly successful. He is universally 
rescras t a specialist in N yaya, and his widespread fame — 
popularity are in a great measure due to his quite origina 
method of teaching that most abstruse branch of Hindu Philo- 
sophy. He is looked upon as a referee whose word is law in 
matters of Shastric interpretation as well as in the solution of 
difficult social and religious problems. He has done good service 
