Akṣapāda Gautama
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Akṣapāda Gautama Life story
'Akṣapāda Gautama' (or 'Gotama') stands for the legendary founder of the Nyāya ('Logic') school of Indian philosophy, who is reputed also to be the author of its basic text, the Nyāyasūtra. This compilation of roughly 500 mnemonic sentences reached its first defined form around ad 400.
