Editing Nyaya (section)

=== Commentarial Tradition ===
Concepts in the foundational text, the Nyaya Sutras, were clarified through a tradition of commentaries. Commentaries were also a means to defend the philosophy from misinterpretations by scholars of other traditions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Picascia |first=Rosanna |date=2023-04-18 |title=Our epistemic dependence on others: Nyāya and Buddhist accounts of testimony as a source of knowledge |url=https://academic.oup.com/jhs/article-abstract/17/1/62/7128281?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Journal of Hindu Studies |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=63 |doi=10.1093/jhs/hiad003 |issn=1756-4263}}</ref>

The Nyāya scholars that followed refined, expanded, and applied the ''Nyaya Sutras'' to spiritual questions. While the early Nyaya scholars published little to no analysis on whether supernatural power or God exists, they did apply their insights into reason and reliable means to knowledge to the questions of nature of existence, spirituality, happiness and [[moksha]]. Later Nyāya scholars, such as [[Udayana]], examined various arguments on theism and attempted to prove existence of God.<ref name="csharma" /> Other Nyāya scholars offered arguments to disprove the existence of God.<ref name="fxc" /><ref>G. Jha (1919), ''Original atheism of the Nyaya, in Indian Thought – Proceedings and Transactions of the First Oriental Congress'', Vol ii, pages 281–285</ref><ref>Dale Riepe (1979), ''Indian Philosophy Since Independence'', Volume 1, BR Grüner Netherlands, {{ISBN|978-90-6032-113-3}}, page 38</ref>

The most important contribution made by the Nyāya school to Hindu thought has been its treatises on [[epistemology]] and [[system of logic]] that, subsequently, has been adopted by the majority of the other Indian schools.<ref name=olil>Oliver Leaman (2006), Nyaya, in ''Encyclopaedia of Asian Philosophy'', Routledge, {{ISBN|978-0-415-86253-0}}, pages 405–407</ref>