Gautama and Vatsyayana on Perception

• Pratyaksa is a knowledge that arises out of the contact between sense organs and the object, according to Gautama and is non-verbal, non-contradicted and non-fallible in nature.
• His definition of perception stands for laksya [a thing which is to be defined] which suggests that we should take into consideration the different characters through the means of which laksya is distinguished from alaksya [not an object of definition].
• For instance, let՚s distinguish between anumana and a ghata. Anumana is si…

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