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1s 18 precisely the teaching of the second Satra, though the 
wo up. ome other 
Buddhist philosophers might have introduced the second Siatra 
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ose. 
at the science of Aksapada was, for a long time, in the 
hands of the Buddhists, and, therefore, not in great favour with 
The Ramayana, the Malabharata, the Puranas, and even the 
Dharmaastras dislike those who studied the TarkaSastra. 
nihilists (ardhavainasika). That there was an unholy alliance 
between the N yaya and the Buddhists in the early centuries of 
Buddhism, is not open to grave doubts. The introduction of the 
nd Sitra, the alterations in the meyasitra, an 
definitions of misery, birth or rebirth, activity, faults, and 
emancipation in the first chapter appe the work of Bu 
dhists. The examination of these definitions occupy the whole of 
the first Lecture of the fourth chapter. 
The work underwent another transformation in the hands of 
a later Hindu sect who vigorously assailed some of the prominent 
Buddhist doctrines, both Mahayanist and Hinayanist. ese 
assailed Sarvadsiinyatavada on the one hand, and Sarvastvada 
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