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2. Mathura Natha Tarkavagica, who wrote a gloss on the Didhiti 

 .and also an original comment on Gangeca. 



3. Jagadica Tarkalankara, who also wrote a commentary on part of 

 the Didhiti as well as many other works, especially a very celebrated 

 treatise on logic and grammar, called the cabda-cakti-prakacika. 



4. Gradadhara Bhattacharya, who wrote a commentary on the 

 Didhiti and a series of works, snch as the Vishayata-vadartha, &c, 

 on the abstrusest mysteries of the modern logic. 



5. Qankara Tarkavagica, who wrote a commentary called Patrika, 

 on the harder passages of Mathura Natha, Jagadica, and Gadadhara. 

 He seems to have flourished about sixty or seventy years ago : and it 

 is he who is said to have brought to its height the present vicious 

 system of disputatious logomachy which prevails in Nuddea. 



A tole is generally a mere collection of mud hovels round a qua- 

 drangle, in which the students live in the most primitive manner 

 possible. The Pandit does not reside with them, but comes to teach 

 them on the lawful days. Each student has his own hut, with his 

 brass waterpot and mat, and few have any other furniture. Most 

 make their own copies of the books they use, and a large part of the 

 year is vacation, during which they wander over the surrounding 

 country on begging expeditions ; but during the reading months 

 much hard mental labour is undoubtedly gone through. On one side 

 of the quadrangle there is a " lecture hall," usually on a raised plat- 

 form, some three feet from the ground ; it is open on one side, and just 

 sheltered on the other three from the rain and wind. In some toles 

 it is only a thatched shed ; in others it is a little more elaborate. 

 Only one tole in Nuddea can boast of any external adornment. This 

 is the tole of Pandit Prasanna Chandra Tarkaratna. It was built for 

 him by a Babti of Lucknow, and is really an elegant building, occu- 

 pying about a beegah and a half of land. The quadrangle inside is 

 about thirty yards square and contains thirty rooms for the students. 

 The rooms are generally about nine feet long and eight wide, with a 

 window and door ; the corner rooms are rather larger. More than 

 half of one side is given up to a lecture hall or ddldn. This stands 

 on a platform raised some five feet from the ground ; it has two 

 apartments, each about thirty-three feet in length, the outer is ten, 

 the inner twelve feet wide ; and the front is supported by six pillars 



