Nyaya Concept of Cause & Effect Relationship

About The Book
The present book Nyaya concept of Cause and Effect Relationship is a product of arduous inquiry into the genesis and development of the concept of causality in the Nyaya-vaisesika system of Indian Philosophy. The unfoldment of the intricate thought processes in all the philosophical branches of India, depend upon abstract relations that directly correspond to the relation of causality. The book sketches out the blossoming up of the concept of causality in the hands of seventeen Nyaya-vaisesika philosophers right from Kanada and Gautama to Bhavananda Bhattacharya. It also applies special thrust to the dating and making notes upon the treatise Karnataka-vicara on the concept. Special care has been taken to present before the readers the beauty of philosophical argumentations prevalent in India.

About the Author
Dr. Arun Ranjan Mishra (1959) is a known Oriya poet with eight collections of post-modern Oriya poems to his credit. After working as a Research Fellow and subsequently as a Research Associate in the Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Pune (Maharashtra) from 1983 to 1990, he is now a Reader in Deptt of Sanskrit, Pali Prakrit, Visva-Bharati Santiniketan (W.B). His book Contemporary Sanskrit writings in Orissa (2006) published by the present publisher has earned accolades from the Indological readers. Classical Sanskrit, Modern Sanskrit, Indian Aesthetics and Poetics and Indian Logic are his fields of academic interest.