INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Dignaga was the writer who is the founder of Buddhist logic and has been called the Father of Medieval Nyaya. Hence the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dignāga (a.k.a. Diṅnāga, c. 480 – c. 540 CE) was an Indian Buddhist scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian logic (hetu vidyā). Dignāga’s work laid the groundwork for the development of deductive logic in India and created the first system of Buddhist logic and epistemology (Pramana).

Detailed explanation-3: -Dignaga’s Pramanasamuccaya (“Compendium of the Means of True Knowledge”) is one of the greatest works on Buddhist logic. Dignaga gave a new definition of perception: a knowledge that is free from all conceptual constructions, including name and class concepts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike his contemporaries from the Brahmanic traditions, Dignaga only accepts two means of valid cognition, that is, perception and inference.