Bauddhadhikkara

The Bauddhadhikkara is a work by Udayanacharya, a Hindu logician who flourished in the 10th century. Udayanacharya sought to reconcile the views of the original Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools of logic. While the Vaisheshika school believed the world was formed by atoms, Udayanacharya also emphasized the importance of the mind and its correct understanding of objects.1

The Bauddhadhikkara specifically served as an attack on the nontheistic arguments of Buddhism. Udayanacharya defended his belief in a personal God by arguing that the existence of the world, as an effect, could not be solely explained by atomic activity. He posited that a supreme being must have caused and regulated the atoms, thus proving God's existence.1