Udayanacarya

Udayanacarya

Udayanacarya was a Hindu philosopher of the 10th century. He took some of the ideas of the Nyaya school and some ideas of the Vaisheshika school to formulate his own arguments, which became the root of the Navya-Nyāya school of the 13th century, established by Gangesha Upadhyaya.


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