 About the person little more is known. About Gaṅgeśa’s reputation, Bhattacharya says (1958: 109): “The work of Gaṅgeśa became highly popular very soon and was studied and commented upon in various centers of culture of India. It not only cast the works of the old school of logic into oblivion but the neo-logical works of his predecessors also faded into insignificance and were gradually were forgotten due to its overwhelming popularity and all-embracing character.” Concerning the part on inference, the learned sanskritist writes (1958: 107, 108): “The second part on Anumāna (Inference) is by far the most popular, though the most intricate of the whole book. … The latest phase of Navyanyāya studies in India for about two centuries flowed through a large number of channels cut by single sentences or phrases of this part of Gaṅgeśa’s work and by far the widest channel emerged from the general definition of Fallacy. It has now assumed proportions through the efforts of all the best Indian brains in Navyanyāya, which is a world’s wonder in the field of intellectual feats … .”