This English Videha quiz covers the introduction and doctrinal summary of The Tattva-Chintāmaṇi of Gangeśa Upādhyāya, including the four means of valid knowledge: perception, inference, comparison, and verbal testimony. Choose an answer to see instant green/red feedback with explanation. Use the final evaluation button for section-wise score.
1. Introduction — Importance of Tattva-Cintāmaṇi
2. Introduction — Gangeśa, Date, and Intellectual Setting
3. The Text — Four Books and Opening Invocation
4. Book I — Validity of Knowledge / Prāmāṇya-vāda
5. Book I — Invalid Knowledge and Anyathākhyāti
6. Book I — Ordinary Perception / Laukika-pratyakṣa
7. Book I — Six Kinds of Sense-Object Intercourse / Sannikarṣa
8. Book I — Transcendent Perception / Alaukika-pratyakṣa
9. Book I — Inherence, Non-perception, and Non-existence
10. Book I — Causes of Perception
11. Book I — Atomic Mind, Self-consciousness, and Two Perceptions
12. Book II — Determination of Inferential Knowledge
13. Book II — Vyāpti and Five Provisional Definitions
14. Book II — Lion-Tiger Definition and Qualified Absence
15. Book II — Conclusive Definition, General Absence, and Special Forms
16. Book II — Means of Apprehending Vyāpti and Tarka
17. Book II — General-character Intercourse in Inference
18. Book II — Conditional Middle Term / Upādhi-vāda
19. Book II — Pakṣa, Sapakṣa, Vipakṣa, and Parāmarśa
20. Book II — Types of Inference and Presumption
21. Book II — Nyāya Syllogism and Its Five Members
22. Book II — Hetu, Udāharaṇa, Upanaya, and Nigamana
23. Book II — General Definition of Fallacy / Hetvābhāsa
24. Book II — Erratic, Contradictory, and Counterbalanced Reasons
25. Book II — Unproved and Incompatible Reasons
26. Book II — Inference of God
27. Book III — Comparison / Upamāna-khaṇḍa
28. Book IV — Definition of Verbal Testimony / Śabda-khaṇḍa
29. Book IV — Speech as Valid Knowledge and Rival Reductions
30. Book IV — Expectancy, Consistency, Contiguity, and Intention
31. Book IV — Sound, Veda, and Injunction
32. Book IV — Merit, Demerit, and Potentiality / Śakti-vāda
33. Book IV — Sources of Word-Potentiality and Classification of Words
34. Book IV — Implication / Lakṣaṇā and Compound Words
35. Book IV — Verbal Suffixes, Roots, Prefixes, and Four Pramāṇas
36. Review — Cross-Book Connections
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