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Gaṅgeśa

Dictionary Definition: 

  • He is usually dated to about the 12th (or 13th) century, and is generally credited with founding the "New Logic" (Navya Nyāya).
  • Toshihiro Wada, Gaṅgeśa and Mathurānātha on Siṃhavyāghralakṣaṇa of vyāpti [4], Saṃbhāṣā, Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism, vol. 19 (1997?), pp. 1-22.
  • Mrinalkanti Gangopadhyay, Gaṅgeśa on the Means for the Ascertainment of Invariable Concomitance, Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 3 (1975), pp. 167-208.

Bibliography:

  • Prāmāṇyajñaptivāda.
    • Jitendranath Mohanty, ed., Gangeśa's Theory of Truth, Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy (Calcutta 1966).
  • Tattvacintāmaṇi.
    • Erich Frauwallner, Die Lehre von der zusätzlichen Bestimmung (Upādhiḥ) in Gaṅgeśas Tattvacintāmaṇiḥ, Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse Band 266.2 (Vienna 1970).
    • Stephen H. Phillips, From Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi: Discourse on Perceptual Presentation of Something as Other than What It Is, Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 28 (2000), pp. 567-650.
    • Stephen H. Phillips & Chakrabarti Arindam, Epistemology of Perception: Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi, Jewel of Reflection on the Truth / about Epistemology, the Perception Chapter, American Institute of Buddhist Studies (New York 2004).