Indian Philosophy (sarva darshana saamkathya)

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Sunder,

Nice writeup on Gangesha!

I had a book on analysis of Gangesha's navya-nyAya, and I started to read it but didn't complete. All I remember is being very impressed.

Just a couple of comments:

1. pramANa-vAda sounds very much like epistemology.

2. Where he uses the dual of 'pramA' as right knowledge and 'brahma' as wrong knowledge, I think brahma is wrongly spelled. It should be "bhrama". As brahma and bhrama are poles apart! (like brahma and mAyA). Reminded me of a nice gentleman from Punjab who used to pronounce brahma as bhrama, which put me into a bit of confusion at first. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->