Essay name: Tarkabhasa of Kesava Misra (study)
Author:
Nimisha Sarma
Affiliation: Gauhati University / Department of Sanskrit
This is an English study of the Tarkabhasa of Kesava Misra: a significant work of the syncretic Nyaya-Vaisesika school of Indian philosophy widely used as a beginner's textbook in southern India and has many commentaries. This study includes an extensive overview of the Nyaya and Vaisesika philosophy, epistemology and sources of valid knowledge. It further deals with the contents and commentaries of the Tarkabhasa.
Chapter 4 - Purvabhaga of Tarkabhasa: Contents
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to be grasped extrinsically, i.e. both are grasped by means other than those that
produce cognition. Pramanya here means 'the fact of being true to its nature'
and not the 'fact of being instrument of a valid cognition'. Thus, the validity of
knowledge is grasped extrinsically and not by the same means that produces
the knowledge.
