Chapter 2 - Historical Study of Nyaya system

Kavirāj says: "Personally I am disposed to believe that the distinction between the old and the new school in the history of Nyaya philosophy dates from after Udayana and Śridhara." 1 There remains no topic in Gancesa's work, which had
not been already argued by Udayana in his main works and
specially in the Kusumanjall. It is only in the method and
mode of expression that Gongesa excelled over Udayana. In
the words of Dinesh Bhattāōarya: "The real founder is the
great Udayanācārya, who had the supreme privilege of
occupying the threshold to ring out the old and usher in
the new age by his monumental works. On the one hand,
Udayana's Parisudhi forms the last part of the surviving
classics of the older school of the Nyaya, and on the other
his Kusumēnjall is uptill now a text book of Navya-Nyāya.”
2 Till now, we have treated the main authors and writers
of the old Nyaya who explained and developed the ideas
contained in the Nyāya Sutra and also defended them against
the attacks of the hostile arities. The Old Nyaya is thus,
a development of the Sutra philosophy of Cantana through a
process of attack, counter-attack and defence among the
1. Gopināth Kavirāj, Princess of Wales, Saraswati Bhaven
Studies, Vol. II, Page 200
2. Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya, History of Navya-Nyāya in
Mithila, Page 1.
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