The pandit world with special reference to problems of logic
pp. 107-120
in: Asian philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1993Abstrakt
Indian Logic is vast. Its problems are many. The Pandit World is also quite big. The erudition of pandits is well known and their mastery of many difficult original texts of the śāstra is amazing. Many pandits have suggested many solutions in their speeches and in their writings. Their speeches have not been recorded. Many of their writings are also not available; yet a great number of them are available in Sanskrit. The available material itself looks like an ocean indeed! But how much of it have I drunk and digested? Hence to write under the above heading is a precarious job. Only a fool could venture to contain this ocean-like subject within a peppercorn-like paper of some fifteen pages. Inescapably, therefore, one has to choose one or two convenient problems only for the paper. Let me proceed. I am also a pandit, in a way.