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Mr. H. T, Coresrooxe on the Philosophy of the Hindus. 93 immediate notice) without naming the authors; and I cannot adventure, having no present opportunity of consulting the original scholia in a collective form, to assign them to their proper authors, from recollection of former researches.

They are of high authority, and probably of great antiquity: and it frequently becomes a question with the later commentators, whether a particular passage is to be taken for a séra and part of the text, or fora gloss of the ancient scholiast.

Commentaries, which are now at hand, and which have been consulted in the course of preparing the present treatise, are the Vartica-tatparya-pari-Sudd’hi of the celebrated UpayanAcuArya; and the Vartica-tatparya-ticd of the no less celebrated VAcuespati-m1sra. The more modern scholia of ViswanArHa upon Gérama’s text, and SANCARA-MISRA upon CaNnADE’s, are those to which most frequent reference has been made, for the present purpose.

Separate treatises of distinguished authors teach, and amply discuss, the elements of the science. Such are the Nydya-lildvati of BaLvaBua-AcHArya, following chiefly CanApr’s system.

An easier, and more concise, introduction, than these abstruse and vo- luminous works afford, is found requisite to the initiatory study of the science. One of the most approved elementary treatises is the Tarca- bhashd of Ci$ava-misra, author of many other tracts. Though adapted to the comprehension of the learner without the aid of a gloss, it has nevertheless employed the labour of many commentators, expounding and illustrating it. Among others may be named, in order of seniority, Géverv’HaNa-migra in the Tarca-bhishd-pracdsa ; Gauricanra (author likewise of the Sadyucti- muctdvali) in the Bhdvdrt’ha-dipicd ; MAv’Havaviva (author of the N. ydya- sdra) in the Tarca-bhdshd-stra-manjart ; besides RAMALINGA-cRiTI in the Nydya-sangraha, whose relative antiquity is less certain ; and Barreuapra, who is known to me only from GauricAnra’s citations.

Another compendious introduction to the study of Indian logic is the Padartha-dipicd by C6npa-Buatra, a noted grammarian, author of the Vaiydcarana-bhishana on the philosophy of grammatical structure. — Iti does not appear to have had any commentator ; and it needs none.

Metrical treatises, or memorial verses, comprising the elements of the science, bear the ordinary denomination of Cdricd. A work of this descrip- tion is the Cuswmdyyali, with its commentary, by NARaYANa-TirT’HA > ane