Udayana

Who was Udayana?

Udayana also known as Udayanācārya lived in the 10th century, in Kariyan village in Mithila, near present day Darbhanga, Bihar state, India. Udayana was a very important Hindu logician who attempted to reconcile the views held by the two major schools of logic. This became the root of the Navya-Nyāya school of the 13th century, established by Gangesha Upadhyaya school of “right” reasoning, which is still recognized and followed in some regions of India.

Udayana wrote a sub-gloss on Vachaspati's work called the Nyaya-vaartika-taatparya-tiikaa-parishuddhi. He wrote several other works such as the Kusumanjali, Atma-tattva-viveka, Kiranaavali and Nyaya-parishishhta.

UdayanAchArya and Kumarilabhatta. To the "mImAmsakA-s" the Buddhist's summary rejection of Vedic ritualism was the proverbial red rag waved under the nose of a raging bull !Kumarilabhatta, it can be seen, has written copiously criticising the Buddhist's distaste for Vedic ritualism। He and UdayanAchArya were chiefly responsible for the failure of Buddhism to acquire a large following in the country.