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This outstanding book on Indian Philosophy, deals with the heterodox schools of carvaka, the Buddhist and the Jaina, and the orthodox schools of Vaisesika, Nyaya, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimamsa and Vedanta. It deals with the Buddhist schools of Vibhasika, Sautrantika, Yogachara and Madhymika; the Mimamsa schools of Kumarila and Prabhakara, and the Vedanta schools of Samkara and Ramanuja, as well as the Philosophy of the Upanisads and the Bhagavad Gita. It discuss the main problems of epistemology, logic, onto logy, ethics, theology, and of some problems of psychology. It touches on the nature and means of valid knowledge – perception inference, comparison, testimony, presumption and non-apprehension, intrinsic and extrinsic validityof knowledge, tests of truth, the nature and kinds of invalid knowledge, the nature of prakrti, matter, atoms, space, time, casuality, creation, evolution, mechanism and teleology, the nature and knowledge of the individual self, freedom of the will, bondage, liberation, pre-existence, future life and transmigration, the nature of God and His relation to the world and the individual self. It gives the proofs for the existence of prakrti, atoms, the individual self, and God advanced by the different systems.