ABSTRACT
Udayana (c. eleventh century CE), is famous for his contributions to the rational proof for the existence of God. In this chapter, I consider a crucial component of Udayana’s theistic monograph, the Nyāyakusumāñjali, dealing in particular with the epistemological topic—prāmāṇyavāda—or the Theory of Validity. In his analysis of this topic, Udayana argues how we justify our cognition and undertake actions and he weaves this argument together with his theological theory. The task of this paper is to isolate the implicit linkage between the prāmāṇyavāda and the assumption of an omniscient being.
