Aksapada Gautama (probably c. 2nd century BC) was an Indian logician who authored the Nyaya Sutras, which are the foundation of the Nyaya school of Hinduism. Aksapada is known also as Gautama Rishi and Dirghatapas, and because of the various ways of rendering Sanskrit into English, there are many variant spellings of this name. (3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events BC 168 Battle of Pydna -- Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans BC 148 Rome conquers Macedonia BC 146 Rome destroys Carthage in the Third Punic War BC 146 Rome conquers... The article titled Logicians treats the ancient Chinese philosophers known by that name (with a capital L). List of logicians (with a lower-case l) treats philosophers, mathematicians, and others whose topic of scholarly study is logic. ... The Nyaya-sutras were composed by Aksapada Gautama around 500 BC. The sutras contain five chapters, each with two sections. ... Nyaya is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika Hindu schools of Philosophy - specifically the history of logic. ... This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ... The Sanskrit language ( संस्कृता वाक्) is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family and is not only a classical language, but also an official language of India. ...