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type: Reference
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id: tarkasamgraha
title: Tarkasaṃgraha (Annambhaṭṭa)
description: Annambhaṭṭa's concise late primer of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, the standard classroom introduction to the categories, the pramāṇas, inference, and the fallacies.
tags:
- reference
- tarkasamgraha
- annambhatta
- primer
timestamp: '2026-07-02'
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license: CC BY-SA 4.0
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# Tarkasaṃgraha (Annambhaṭṭa)

The Tarkasaṃgraha of Annambhaṭṭa (c. 17th century CE), with the author's own Dīpikā, is the most widely used introductory manual of the combined Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system. In a few pages it lays out the seven Vaiśeṣika categories, the nine substances and their qualities, the four pramāṇas, the anatomy of inference (vyāpti, the three-conditioned mark, inference-for-oneself and inference-for-others), and the standard fivefold classification of pseudo-reasons (hetvābhāsa). Because it distils the classical apparatus into teachable form, this bundle uses it as the primer reference for the inference machinery and the fallacy taxonomy, while deeper points are anchored to the sūtras and their Bhāṣyas.
