218 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1905. 
logic is Pramanasamuccaya by Dignaga. The next work is Pra- 
mana-vartika-karika (or a commen tary in verse on the above), 
Then follows Paine. vartikalankara, and so on. Jinendrabodhi’s 
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the library of the India Office, London. These excellent and old 
works on logic lead us to conclude that the credit of having 
founded the modern Nyaya must be attributed to the Buddhists, 
hom there were numerous logicians such as |)ignaga, 
abha 
writers had flourished long before the a are logician Ganhgesa 
Upadhyaya compiled his Pramana-cintam 
he circumstance which led the Bnddhists to forsake the 
ancient Nyaya and to ae) the foundation of a new system ca alled 
modern Nyaya was due to the peculiarity of the religion which 
they professed. Having considered the sixteen categories treated 
in the ancient Nyaya to be redundant and some of them as mainly 
based on the orthodox principles of the Hindus, the Buddhists took 
up only one category, viz., Pramana (evidence of knowledge), a 
treated it in such a way that the doctrine of evidence might be 
equally applied to the religious shies s of the Hindus and Bnd- 
The attempt on the part of the Buddhists to divest & 68 
mag 
* bee 
cs, 
ie cause e of the rasan of the modern Nyaya, Begin a 
Life of Dignaga. uh 
some interest to the reader. Dignaga (Tib. ge 
al N al ) the celebrated author of this work, was born in # 
Brahman family in the south near = country of Kaiici bordering 
on the city of Simhavakta, and acquired vast knowledge in all 
Tirtha systems. By Nagadatta ney Pandit of the Vatsiputriy? 
school he was admitted to the religious system of that school am and 
L ‘Lhis work ig oath = the Tibetan version of the Nyfya-bindu-tik®, 
igi -vyakarna and Tara stotra) has been kindly lent to me for six months 
by e Government of India. 
& Vide \QayQaa’ aa QaGc’ Pag-sam-jon-zang (pages 100-101), edited 
by Rai Sarat Chandra — Bahadur, C.L.E., and Lama Taranatha’s Buddhism 
Schiefner, pp, 130-135 
