This volume provides the first modern translation of the recently found original Sanskrit text
of Dharmakirti's Hetubindu (ca. 600 CE) the first Indian work of pure logic. The concise
definitions and explanations of the central terms are enriched by several extensive digressions
such as on the pervasion (vyapti) in the proof of momentariness of entities with his
conceptions of causality and on the nature of non-perception or negative cognition
(anupalabdhi) as well as by the supplement of a refutation of Isvarasena's theorem of six
characteristics for a logical reason (¿allak¿äahetu). The translation aims at making the
content available to specialists in Indian epistemology and also to philosophers and logicians
in general who have no knowledge of classical Sanskrit. It is provided with a short
introduction and a detailed structural outline.
