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(Samksepa Sankarajaya XVL., 68-69). 
Says the Naiyayika vauntingly (to Sankara) : “If you are 
omniscient, state the difference between the theories of salvation as 
held by Kanada and by Aksapada. Otherwise give up your 
pretensions to omniscience.” (Replies Sankara) “ According to 
Kanada, salvation is existence, where all connexion with attributes 
has been absolutely destroyed, and the soul remains like the sky. 
According to your Aksapada that salvation includes a conscious- 
ness of pleasure.” 
Sankara, the great Advaita commentator on the Brahma- 
sutras, went to Sarada-pitha in Kasmira, and before he could 
enter into the shrine, he was questioned by different philosophers 
on nice points of Indian Philosophy. Permission to enter was 
conditional upon answering these questions rightly. The two 
couplets quoted above occur just after Sankara had successfully 
answered the atomic philosopher (Kanada). 
From what has been said, it. will be evident that though 
sukha ov pleasure is not enumerated as a separate prameya in 
Nyayasttra (I. 1.9), as known at present, and though section 13 
of the first ahnika of the fourth chapter reduces it to mere pain, yet 
it (pleasure) had a place in the old Nyaya Sastra, and that the 
true tradition was not lost in such out-of-the-way places as the 
_arada pitha in Kasmira, and that only such great masters as 
Sankara were expected to know it, the tradition having been lost 
in the mainland of India much earlier. 
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