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Viśvanāthapañcānana

Viśvanāthapañcānana (a.k.a. Viśvanātha Pañcānana, Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana Bhaṭṭācārya) was from Bengal. Viśvanāthapañcānana's father Vidyānivāsabhaṭṭācārya was a contemporary of Kṛṣṇaśeṣa in Vārāṇasī.

Name

Viśvanāthapañcānana

Alternative Name

Viśvanātha Pañcānana, Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana Bhaṭṭācārya

Date Active

c. 1650 A.D.

References

Anantaśāstry (ed.) (1916), Kārikāvalī with the commentaries Muktāvalī, Dinakarī, Rāmarudrī. Bombay: Nirnaya Sagar Press.

Texts

The Kārikāvalī (a.k.a. Bhāṣāpariccheda) is a set of around 170 verses in which a compendium of views of the nyāya tradition is given. The author of the Kārikāvalī is Viśvanāthapañcānana.

Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī

The Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī (a.k.a. Siddhāntamuktāvalī, Muktāvalī) is an auto-commentary on the Kārikāvalī. The author of the Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī is Viśvanāthapañcānana.

Linguistic Traditions

Nyāya is the native tradition of logic and epistemology. Its foundational text is Gautama's Nyāyasūtra (c. 150 AD), which deals mainly with logic, epistemology, and the theory...