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Swaveda - Articles - Book Extract: Indian Scientific Methodol... (506 words) |
 | These basic principles were sought, investigated and formulated by an Ancient Indian philosopher-scientist called Gotama or Akshapada. |
| Who was Gotama or Akshapada and when and where did he live cannot be said with any certainty. |
| Perhaps he lived before the time of the Buddha and was a contemporary of Kanada, who lived in the 6th century BC. |
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| Buddha -> Early Life His given name was Siddhartha and his family name Gautama (or Gotama). |
| He was born the son of a king of the Sakya clan of the Kshatriya, or warrior, caste (hence his later epithet Sakyamuni, the sage of the Sakyas) in the Himalayan foothills in what is now S Nepal. |
| BC), is a school of logic and epistemology that defined the rules of debate and canons of proof. |
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