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Rare 11th-Century 'Yukti-Pratyaksha-Sara' Manuscript Discovered in Rural Mewar Vault Reshapes History of Logical Verification

📅 April 7, 2026 📰 Global Antiquity News
Rare 11th-Century 'Yukti-Pratyaksha-Sara' Manuscript Discovered in Rural Mewar Vault Reshapes History of Logical Verification

A discovery in a private library vault in the Mewar region has brought to light an 11th-century treatise on logic titled 'Yukti-Pratyaksha-Sara'. This work, written in late Sanskrit, focuses on the "History of Logical Verification" (Pramana), specifically dealing with the validity of non-perceptual knowledge. It introduces a unique "Logic of Cumulative Evidence" that was thought to have developed centuries later.

Scholars from the University of Rajasthan state that the manuscript provides a bridge between the classical Nyaya school and the later Navya-Nyaya traditions. It specifically addresses the problem of epistemic doubt, arguing that collective inference, when grounded in sensory observation, can achieve a degree of certainty previously deemed impossible by contemporary skeptics.

Original source: Global Antiquity News