246 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1905. 
For convenience sake, I took up the Nyayasiicinibandha 
dated 898 Saka, 7.e., 976 a.p., and that for three reasons, 
of 
c s. I have made an English 
translation of the Sitras with as little help from the commentaries 
as possible. 
The study of the Sitras makes it apparent that works of two. 
different sciences have been mixed up. One is a work on 
Logic, or rather the science of Reasoning, or, as Sadajiro- 
Sugi rms it, “‘ science of discriminating true knowledge from 
The work on Logic is confined almost exclusively to the first 
second chapter also may belong to the Logic part. The rest of 
the work with about eight Siitras in the first chapter belong to 
contain three separate treatises. The first chapter, with the 
exception of the Sitras mentioned above, constitutes the first or 
ce 
I may remark in passing that the science embodied in the 
first chapter of these Stitras is not Logic, in the present signl- 
fication a the term, but Logic in its primitive and rudimentary 
s may b 
Debate, is no part of the second treatise, and seems to be an 
addition. The third treatise consists of the second “daily lecture’ 
