The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2556 page)

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nak described the true ud
s
or renunciant in V
r R
mkal
,
di Granth, p. 952.
3
In the
janam-s
kh
s
, ud
s
refers to the travels of Gur
N
nak, perhaps because during these he assumed the appearance of travelling mendicants.
Udayana
(1025–1100 CE)
. A Hindu theologian of the
Ny
ya
-Vai
e
ika tradition who established arguments for the existence of God (
vara
) by means of the Indian syllogism. The main argument in his
‘Handful of the Flowers of Logic’
(
Ny
yakusum
ñjali
) is a form of the
cosmological argument
that the universe must have a maker as its cause because it has the nature of an effect.

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