Raghunatha Shiromani ( Beng. রঘুনাথ শিরোমণি , Raghunātha Śiromaṇi IAST ; 1477 , Navadwip - 1547 [1] ) is an Indian philosopher and logician, a leading representative of the navya-nyaya . Born in Navadvip , a city in the modern Nadia district of the Indian state of West Bengal . He brought the development of formal Indian logic within the framework of the Navya-Nyaya school to a climax, significantly disagreeing with the founder of Navya-Nyaya Gangesha . Due to the fact that his teacher Vasudeva Sarvabhauma was associated with the religious leader Caitanya , a lot of traditions arose about Raghunath and his teacher. The Indian tradition portrays Raghunatha Shiromani as a brilliant but disrespectful student in his youth and a large, but excessively arrogant scientist in adulthood. Raghunatha was blind in one eye. When Vasudeva sent Raghunatha to complete his logical education in Mithila under the direction of the elderly Pakshadhara, he recited the following verse at his sight:
| Raghunatha Shiromani | |
|---|---|
| রঘুনাথ শিরোমণি | |
| Date of Birth | 1477 |
| Place of Birth | Navadwip , India |
| Date of death | 1547 |
| School / tradition | navya nyaya |
| Core interests | philosophy , logic |
| Influenced | Gangesha |
Indra was a thousandth, Shiva was with three eyes,
People have a pair of eyes, what is this one-eyed man? [2]
Raghunatha, without hesitation, replied:
Who grants insight to the blind, who instructs children in the mind,
He can only be called a mentor, yet the others - only bear a name [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Vidyabhusana, Satis Chandra. A History of Indian Logic: Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Schools . - Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1920, reprint 2006 .-- P. 463. - ISBN 81-208-0565-8 .
- ↑ Ingolss D.G. Kh. Introduction to Indian Navya-Nyaya Logic / Executive Editor V. A. Smirnov. - Moscow : "Science", 1975 . - S. 17. - 239 p. - 2500 copies.
- ↑ Ingolss D.G. Kh. Introduction to Indian Navya-Nyaya Logic / Executive Editor V. A. Smirnov. - Moscow : "Science", 1975 . - S. 18. - 239 p. - 2500 copies.