This study focuses on a sizable passage from the Nyāyabhūṣaṇa, an encyclopedic work of Sanskrit philosophy written by the author Bhāsarvajña of mid-tenth-century Kashmir. Primarily, the study relies on traditional philological methods, including extensive use of manuscripts and close reading of argumentative structure. In addition, however, and in direct support of this close intertextual reading, the study also develops and utilizes new computational resources for “distant reading”, especially semi-automatic search for parallel passages in a corpus of kindred philosophical (pramāṇa) texts.
