Raghunatha Shiromani (,
IAST
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: Raghunātha Śiromaṇi) (
) was an Indian
philosopher
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and
logician
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. He was the head ( The Chancellor ) of the
Ancient Mithila University also known as
Mithila Vidyapeeth.
He was born in a
brahmin
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family at
Nabadwip in present-day
Nadia district
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Nadia district is highly influe ...
of
West Bengal
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state. He was the grandson of (c. 14th century CE), a noted writer on from his mother's side. He was a pupil of
Vāsudeva Sārvabhauma. He brought the new school of
Nyaya
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,
Navya Nyāya, representing the final development of Indian
formal logic
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, to its zenith of analytic power.
Raghunatha's analysis of relations revealed the true nature of number, inseparable from the abstraction of natural phenomena, and his studies of
metaphysics
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dealt with the
negation
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or
nonexistence of a complex
reality
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Philosophical questions abo ...
. His most famous work in logic was the
, a commentary on the ''
Tattvacintāmaṇi'' of
, founder of the ' school.
References
External links
Raghunatha: A Name of Negatives descriptive information of Raghunatha with some controversial issues (his connection with Mahaprabhu Shri
Chaitanya
Chaitanya or Chaithanya may refer to
Philosophy
*Chaitanya (consciousness), Hindu philosophical concept
People
*Chaitanya (name)
*Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1533), founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism
Media
*Chaitanya (film), ''Chaitanya'' (film), ...
) and bibliography
Language: From I-dentity to My-dentity the contemporary deployment of a new category, svatva ( endowment, possessed-ness, entitlement, my-ness), introduced by Raghunatha
1470s births
1550 deaths
16th-century Indian philosophers
16th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians
Indian logicians
15th-century Indian philosophers
Nyaya
Metaphysicians
People from Nadia district
Scholars from West Bengal
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15th-century Indian mathematicians
Ancient Mithila University