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23. History of Nydyasdstra from Japanese Sources.—By 
MandmanopApuydya Haraprasip SHAsTRi. 
The bibliography of Nyayasastra of the Orthodox Hindus is a. 
very short one. It cousists of :— 
(1). The Sitras attributed to Gautama or Aksapada. 
(2) Bhasya attributed to Vatsyayana. 
(3) Vartika by Uddyotakara. 
(4) Tatparyatika by Vacaspati. 
(5) Pariguddhi by Udayana. 
_ But the bibliography of the Buddhist Nyayasastra, as known 
in. China and Japan, is a long list. It attributes the first inception 
of the Nyayagastra to Shok-mok or Mok-shok which, transliterat- 
ed into Sanskrit would be Aksapada. 
__ The second author who treated of Nyaya is said to be Buddha 
himself. The third is Ryuju, who is said to have preached the 
Mahayana doctrines of Buddhism with great success, His Hoh- 
ben-shin-ron is one of the polemical works against heretics, Itcon- 
ins one volume on logic. urth is Mirok (Maitreya). 
The fifth Muchak (Asanga), Mirok’s disciple. Muchak’s younger 
brother Seish (Vasubandhu) wrote three books on Logic—KRonki, 
naga and his disciple Sankarasvami, whose works were translated 
mto Chinese, by the great Hienth Sang. Hienth Sang had two- 
great disciples—Kwei-ke in China, and Doh-Soh in Japan. 
tinguished teachers of N yaya both in China and in ; P 
to the present day Din-naga has a firm hold on the learned people 
bo Chi nd Japan e pean system of logi 
eighty-four topics, five hun d twenty-eight stitras, 
yeventeen hundred and ninety-six words, eight t t : 
d and eighty-five letters passing, 
