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The Nyāya school is one of the leading traditions of philosophy in classical India. Its early theological reflections are found in the form of commentaries on a portion of its root text, the Nyāya-sūtra (c. 200 CE), by the pioneering thinkers Vātsyāyana (c. 425 CE) and Uddyotakara (c. 550 CE). Vātsyāyana articulates a skeletal notion of a universal creator, akin to the God of natural theology, who also oversees the karmic justice of the creation. Uddyotakara offers a number of proofs for the existence of such a God, focused on the need for intelligent, agential creation behind the structure of the world. These are best understood as arguments from design in a decidedly Hindu context.