CRITERIA⤓ .txt 2026-07-17T155029.000 000000000013776 Time: c. 5th century BCE to the 17th century CE, from Pāṇini to the late Navya-Nyāya. The tradition is bounded at both ends by its own method of transmission: it begins where sūtra literature begins and it is treated as closing where the commentarial lineages break under colonial reorganization, not because thinking stopped.