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Excerpt from The Kusumánjali: Or Hindu Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being, by Udayana Acharya, With the Commentary of Hari Dasa Bhattacharya The following treatise is very celebrated amongst Hindu logicians, and, however little it may be calculated to interest the general English reader, it will certainly not be without a use and interest to those Europeans whose studies are direct-ed to the higher branches of Sanskrit literature. They will hardly fail to be attracted by a work which, though obscure and techni cal, professes to grapple, from a Hindu standing-point, with the world-old problem, how the existence of the Supreme Being is to be proved; and perhaps those who are interested in the history Of philosophy may turn over some of the pages with curiosity, especially when they occasionally recognise old fa' miliar arguments and objections in their quaint Oriental dis guise. The Kusumanjali is as much inferior to the tenth book of'plato's Laws or the twelfth of Aristotle's Metaphysics, as Hin du philosophy itself is to that of Greece 5 but nothing can rob India of the merit of an original system of logic and metaphy sics, unborrowed from any other land. It has been said that the past history of philosophy is the record of glorious failures in the attempt to solve an insuperable problem 5 and it cannot be uninteresting to trace the brave efforts of a Hindu thinker, far away from the circle of Christianity, who, perplexed by the doubts or Open disbelief taught in many of the systems current in his day, endeavoured, however vainly, to build for his country men the first truth of Theology on a firm logical foundation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections