Scholars at the Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University have recovered a 12th-Century manuscript from a rural household archive in the Mithila region. The work, titled 'Yukti-Prasada-Sudha', is a masterclass in the logic of benevolent agency, attempting to prove that ethical action is the only logically consistent response to the nature of reality.
The manuscript employs sophisticated Anumana (inference) to demonstrate that the separation between self-interest and the welfare of others is a logical fallacy. This discovery is significant for its rare attempt to ground the ethics of compassion within the rigorous formalisms of the Navya-Nyaya school, suggesting a much closer relationship between logic and devotion than previously assumed by historians of Indian philosophy.