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Jagadish Tarkalankar Nyaya philosopher and sanskrit scholar from Navadwip in the 16th century. Jagadish Tarkalankar's ancestors were originally from sylhet. His father, Jadavchandra Vidyavagish, was a nyaya scholar at Navadwip and his great-grandfather, Sanatan Mishra, was the father-in-law of
Sri chaitanya. Jagadish was taught nyaya scriptures at Bhavananda's chatuspathi (religious school), where he became well-versed in nyaya philosophy and was awarded the title of
'Tarklankar'.
Jagadish Tarkalankar was a college teacher. Mayukh,
Jagadish's annotation of raghunath
shiromani's Tattvachintamanididhiti is a four volume
discourse: Pratyaksamayukh, Anumanmayukh, Upamanmukh
and Shabdamayukh. He also wrote Anumandidhititika, Pratyaksadidhititika
and Lilavatididhititika, annotations on Shiromani's
didhiti.
Jagadish's Shabdashaktiprakashika was once taught
as a textbook at all chatuspathi in Bengal. Two of his other books are
Tarkamrta and Nyayadarshan. He was awarded the title of
'Jagadguru' for his scholarship. [Kanailal Ray]
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