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Pramanas meaning
plural of pramana
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For example, compared to Nyaya school's four pramanas, Carvaka school has just one (perception), while Advaita Vedanta school recognizes six means to reliable knowledge.
In the Vigrahavyavartani Karika, Nagarjuna criticizes the Nyaya theory of pramanas (means of knowledge) S.Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy Volume 1, page 644 Nagarjuna was fully acquainted with the classical Samkhya and even the Vaiseshika.
Nagarjuna assumes a knowledge of the definitions of the sixteen categories as given in the Nyaya Sutras and wrote a treatise on the pramanas where he reduced the syllogism of five members into one of three.