Uddyotakara (English spelling)

Japanese: ウッディヨータカラ（英語表記）Uddyotakara

A philosopher of the Nyāya school in the second half of the 6th century in India. Dates of birth and death unknown. He wrote the Nyāya-vārttika to defend the orthodox Brahmanical theory of proof that had been established since the Nyāya-sūtra, which had received serious blows from the Buddhist school of logic. He attempted to re-establish the five-part method by introducing the six-type theory of contact derived from the Vaisheshika school into the theory of direct knowledge and defining reasoning as a means to it by reflection on evidential causes. He also called himself a Pāśupata (beast-lord) sect of the Shaivite sect, and began to develop a proof of the existence of the presiding deity (Īśvara).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

インドの6世紀後半のニヤーヤ学派の哲学者。生没年不詳。仏教論理学派から深刻な打撃を受けた，《ニヤーヤ･スートラ》以来の正統バラモン主義の論証学を守るため《ニヤーヤ･バールティカNyāya‐vārttika》を著した。バイシェーシカ学説に由来する6種の接触説を直接知論に導入，推理については証因の反省がその手段であると定義するなどして五分作法の再確立を図った。シバ派の一派，パーシュパタ(獣主派)であるとも自称し，主宰神(イーシュバラĪśvara)の存在証明の整備に着手した。

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