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of immense inspiration and help to me in the preparation of
this work.
 
The work of Colonel Jacob was an ideal before me. I
have adopted his discussion (with slight changes) in
interpreting the Nyayas. He has taken illustrations from
various works like 'Vacaspatya', the works of Satyavrata
Sāmāśrami and Raghunatha Varma. He has appended a list
of Nyāyas, arranged in alphabetical order in Devanagari script.
One more book has been recently published which has
discussed Nyayas from the Mahābhāṣva of Patanjali.
 
The Nyāyas may be classified mainly under the following
topics:-
1. Nyāyas related to mountains etc.
2. Nyayas related to ladies.
 
3. Nyayas related to rural situations.
 
4. Nyāyas like Arundhatidarśan nyāya,
 
5. Nyayas related to social conditions.
 
6. Nyāyas like Brāhmaṇa Vasiṣṭha nyāya.
 
7. Nyāyas like Danḍāpūpa nyāya.
 
8. Nyāyas related to food articles etc.
 
9. Nyāyas related to animals and birds
 
10. Nyāyas like Gobalivardanyāya, Hansaksirodaknyāya.
 
11. Nyayas like Khalekapota nyaya.
 
12. Nyayas concerning deities.
 
13. Nyayas concerning Sastra conventions.
 
14. Nyāyas like Nāgṛhitaviseṣaṇa nyāya, Sandansa nyāya.
15. Nyāyas related to Agriculture etc.
 
The early Śästra writers have added the word Nyaya to
certain epigrammatic Śāstra rules, like a fa
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