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34, An Examination of the Nydya-Sitras.—By Haraprasav SAsrri. 
It is evident that such a book would be full of contradictions, 
So the Nyaya Sa 
meonsistencies and irreconcilable passages. So Sitras 
. u Comment from Vatsayana, in the thir 
eent A.D Radhamohan Gosvami in the nineteenth, have 
mthe Sitras. The task is an impossible one, and so every 
one of them has failed, and that miserably. They have imported 
later and more modern ideas into the commentaries, but without 
oug was i 
ary or other. Manuscripts giving the Siitras only are extremely 
one from napore, an copy of it to my 
friend Dr. Veni , and it was published at Benares. It is nas 
d hy a 
Duve got one at Benares, and he published it in the Bibliotheca 
Indica as an appendix to his edition of the Nyayavartika. This 
18 known as Nyayasicinibandha. But from what I know of the 
Iam s 
ago, when 
the end of the uk century, twice attempted to fix the number 
of Satras and their readings, nam i dyasil a 
in Nyayasiicinibandha, both of which go by his name. If bo 
are the works of one man, as they profess to be, it is apparent 
that the author did not feel sure of his ground. 
