Vadanyaya of Dharmakirti Winsome Books India inch by inch

inch by inch

that Agama does not mean ‘‘a sacred book appealed to by Vamacharins"’ as opposed to Nigama of the followers of Dakshinachara

and has therefore a value to all seekers of knowledge on that subject

and how nice it were if he did not use any glass even in his later age

to play the deity

Vadanyaya of Dharmakirti Winsome Books India inch by inchVadanyaya is an important work by Dharmakirti on the theory of debate. The work is devoted to the rules of victory and defeat in debate. Dharmakirti has used the Nyaya account of debate, not only as a purvapaka, a position to be refuted, but also, at least partly, as a raw material for reconstruction. His criticism of Nyaya is not purely destructive but it has a constructive aspect also. He gives his own classification of nigrahasthanas along with