Researchers at the National Institute of Heritage Studies have uncovered a remarkably preserved 10th-century palm-leaf manuscript titled Pratyaksha-Bodhini in a previously uncataloged section of a private library in Ujjain. This rare find provides a detailed exploration of the Philosophy of Perceptual Immediacy, offering a sophisticated critique of indirect realism. The text argues that the moment of sensory contact is an ontologically distinct event that precedes mental categorization, providing a 'pure' window into reality that later cognition often obscures.
Scholars believe this manuscript may represent a lost bridge between early Nyaya realism and the burgeoning Pratyabhijna schools of the time. Dr. Ananya Sharma, the lead Sanskritist on the project, noted that the text uses complex mathematical metaphors to describe the speed of cognitive processing. This discovery is expected to shift current scholarly understanding of how medieval Indian philosophers reconciled the subjective nature of experience with the objective existence of the external world.