The Indian - Hindu Philosophy - System of Vedas, Vedangas, Puranas and Gods

Nyaya and Vaisesika

The philosopher Gautama's  system of Nyaya is the Hindu logic, which is still studied in India. The date of Gautama is not known, but he lived in the Philosophic Period, probably a century after Kapila. The Nyaya Sutra, which is ascribed to him, is divided into five books, each subdivided into two “days,” or diurnal lessons, and these are again divided into articles, each of which consists of a number of Sutras.

The Nyaya system starts with the subjects to be discussed, which are fourteen in number: proof, problem, doubt, motive, instance or example, determined truth, argument or syllogism, confutation, ascertainment, controversy, jangling, objection, fallacy, perversion, futility, and controversy.

Proof is of four kinds: Perception, inference, analogy, and verbal testimony. Cause (karana) is that which necessarily precedes an effect, which could not be without the cause; and effect (karya) is that which necessarily ensues and otherwise could not be.

https://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/Jackson1/chapter24.html

Purva Mimamsa

https://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/Jackson1/chapter25.html

Uttar Mimamsa

http://indianphilosophy.50webs.com/utarmima.htm

Purans or Puranas

The Hindu scriptures include 18 Puranas apart from Vedas.

Many people feel there is an oddity in Hindu Purans as each Puran talks of different God as the ultimate authority and tells stories wherein other Gods sing praises of him as the supreme man. But is it really odd. There is no oddity if you can think of plurality. In Indian system of philosophy each god is in charge of a good or bad attribute that people see in nature. It is as though there are discussions among Gods regarding various issues and the line or reasoning proposed by a particular God wins the argument. All such incidents of a particular God are collected in a Puran. Intrepreted this way, the contradiction is less. There is more consistency in the narrations of Purans.

Brief about each of the 18 Purans

http://guide-india.blogspot.in/2012/01/puranas.html


Bhagwat Puran
http://guide-india.blogspot.in/2012/01/bhagavatham.html

Vishnu Puran
Shiv Puran
Brahma Puran

Matsya Puran
Kurma Puran
Varah Puran
Vaman Puran

Ling Puran
Skand Puran

Agni Puran
Garuda Puran

Narad Puran
Markandya Puran

Brahmand Puran
BrahmVaivatra Puran
Padma Puran

Bhavishya Puran



Aplhabetical List of Purans

Agni Puran  

Bhagwat Puran  

Bhavishya Puran  

Brahma Puran  

Brahmand Puran  

Garuda Puran  

Kurma Puran  

Ling Puran  

Markandya Puran  

Matsya Puran 

Narad Puran  

Padma Puran  

Shiv Puran  

Skand Puran  

BrahmVaivatra Puran  

Vaman Puran 

Varah Puran  

Vishnu Puran 

Ud. 23.7.2024

Pub. 11.4.2015