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of chapter fifth. It enumerates the various Points of Defeat and 
efines them. 
One of the most cogent reasons for considering these trea- 
tises as separate, and also for considering them to be composed by 
different authors, is the fact that the same technical terms have 
een used and defined in all the three, but in very different senses. 
subdivisions of Jatis. The term matanujna has been defined one 
Ww in the second and another way in t ir If all the 
three had been written by one and the same person, the same 
Tt is difficult to say whether the composition of the second 
and third treatises preceded or followed that of the first treatise, 
which is a comprehensive work on the Science of Debate. any 
scholars hold that such comprehensive treatises generally follow 
Separate and partial treatises on parts, just as the unidi-sitras 
and the gana-siitras preceded Panini, and that these separate treatises 
after the composition of the comprehensive treatise, formed its 
appendices, 
One wonld be tempted to believe that all the sections of the 
first lecture of chapter second, with the exception of the last, 
and the first and last sections of the second Daily Lecture of that 
obliged to say that the Nyayasiitras consist of the enumeration, 
the definition and the examination of the sixteen topics. The 
first chapter, and the examination in the other chapters. There 
would have been no cause of complaint if all this were a fact. 
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uot apply to a pes ae of the subdivisions of Jatis as given in 
Chapter V. The examination of other three topics, too, contains so 
much of heterogeneous matter, besides an examination of the 
