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Prashastapada's Padartha Dharma Sangraha with Shridhara's Nyaya Kundali

This is Ganganatha Jha's English translation of Prashastapada's Padartha Dharma Sangraha, along with a commentary on it, Shridhara's Nyaya Kundali. The Padartha Dharma Sangraha is a work of the Vaisheshika school of Hindu philosophy, which believed in atomism similar to the Greek philosopher Democritus. It is the second oldest work of the Vaisheshika school, second only to Kanada's Vaisheshika Sutras, the defining text of the Vaisheshika school. The Padartha Dharma Sangraha is often referred to as "Prashastapada's Bhashya" or commentary on the Vaisheshika Sutras, but it is not an actual verse-by-verse commentary. Instead it's an independent exposition of the views of the Vaisheshika school, although it frequently refers to the Vaisheshika Sutras. (If you want an actual commentary on the Vaisheshika Sutras, you can read Shankara Mishra's commentary which is also available on archive.org in English.) Ganganatha Jha's translation was originally published in the early 1900's in the journal "The Pandit", and then in 1916 it was published in book form. It's been out of print for decades, and it was very difficult to find an online version, but I imagined to find one in the digital reposi

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