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In India logic has also developed from the methodology of discussion and disputation (sambhasa, jalpa, vitanda, tarka). A good example for a methodology of discussion (tarka-sastra) can be found in a discussion to become famous in world literature between the monk Nagasana and the Graeco-Bactrian King Menandros, reigning around 150 B.C. in Afghanistan and the North of India, who professed philosophical and religious interests and had received training in the art of discussion and debate. The text in question called The Questions of Milinda goes as follows:
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