The _Vais'e@sika sutras_ do not mention the name of "Is'vara," whereas
the _Nyaya sutras_ try to prove his existence on eschatological
grounds. The reasons given in support of the existence of self
in the _Nyaya sutras_ are mainly on the ground of the unity of
sense-cognitions and the phenomenon of recognition, whereas the
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[Footnote 1: The only old authority which knows these prama@nas is Caraka.
But he also gives an interpretation of sambhava which is different from
Nyaya and calls _arthapatti arthaprapti_ (_Caraka_ III. viii.).]
[Footnote 2: The details of this example are taken from Vatsyayana's
commentary.]
[Footnote 3: The _Nyaya sutra_ no doubt incidentally gives a definition of
jati as "_samanaprasavatmika jati@h_" (II. ii. 71).]
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Vaisesika lays its main emphasis on self-consciousness as a fact
of knowledge. Both the Nyaya and the _Vais'e@sika sutras_ admit
the existence of atoms, but all the details of the doctrine of
atomic structure in later Nyaya-Vais'e@sika are absent there.
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