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title: Nyāyamañjarī (Jayanta Bhaṭṭa)
description: Jayanta Bhaṭṭa's independent, discursive treatise on Nyāya epistemology, prized for its lucid defence of the four pramāṇas and the reliabilist account of testimony.
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timestamp: '2026-07-02'
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# Nyāyamañjarī (Jayanta Bhaṭṭa)

The Nyāyamañjarī ('a flowering-cluster of Nyāya') by Jayanta Bhaṭṭa (Kashmir, c. 9th century CE) is not a line-by-line commentary but an independent, engagingly written treatise selecting and defending the central Nyāya positions. It gives some of the clearest classical arguments for treating upamāna as an irreducible pramāṇa, for the extrinsic apprehension of validity (paratah-prāmāṇya), and for the reliabilist grounding of śabda in a trustworthy speaker, including the Nyāya defence of the Veda's authority via its reliable author. This bundle cites it where a perspicuous classical statement of the pramāṇa theory is wanted.
