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Lieutenant- G-overnor, the other five being, I believe, Nuddea 

 Pandits. He told me that he had twenty-two students, eleven 

 deciya and eleven bidegi from Mithila, Burdwan and Delhi. 



The Smritii students are said generally to study at a tole for 

 eight years, the Nyaya for ten years.* All toles are closed for ten 

 days in each month, i. e., on the 1st (pratipada), the 8th (ashtami), 

 13th (trayodagi) 14th (chaturdaci) and 15th paurnamasi) of each 

 paksha or fortnight, beside two weeks for the Saraswatee pooja and 

 occasionally for other parvas. In Nyaya toles they close from Hatha 

 to Rasa, i. e. } from A'shadhato Kartika (five months). In Smriti toles 

 they close for three months, from Bhadra to Kartika. But of course 

 the studies are liable to irregular interruptions when the Pandits 

 receive invitations from the zemindars. During the vacations the 

 students go on begging expeditions (much as Hindoo and Buddhist 

 ascetics have been famed for doing from immemorial times), or they 

 return to their homes. 



The studies at the Nuddea toles are chiefly confined to the follow- 

 ing works, or parts of works, on logic and law : — 



The chief works read in Nyaya or Logic are, besides the well 

 known standard works, the Bhasha-parichchheda and its commentary 

 the Siddhanta Muktavali. 



1. For Vydpti or the doctrine of the syllogism (comprising also 

 the endless subtleties on pakshatd, or the conditions and rules rela- 

 ting to the minor term in its connection with the major term and 

 the middle), the commentaries on the Didhiti by Mathuranatha, 

 Jagadica and Gadadhara. 



2. For hetivabhasa or the fallacies, the commentaries of Jagadica 

 and Gadadhara. 



3. For Sdmd?iyalaJcshana jndna (one of the most abstruse dis- 

 cussions of Hindu logic, referring to the transcendental perception, 

 by which the mind, as it were, seizes the class in the individual, or, 

 more properly, sees all the individuals under the one now present to 

 the eye), the commentary of Jagadica. 



4. The Kusumanjali, or the celebrated attempt of Udayana 



* Of course but for the continued interruptions the course of study could be 

 finished in half the time. 



