IMAGE OF TRUTH IN TRADITIONAL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY N.A. Kanaeva Cathedra of the History of Philosophy Department of Philosophy National Research University “Higher School of Economics” Maliy Tryehsvyatitelsky Pereulok, 8/2, Moscow, Russia, 101000 Truth is one of the key values in Western culture, and in the History of Western Philosophy it had different images. <...> But sometimes in India it is very difficult to retrace the way from the word ‘truth’ to the philosophical category. <...> In this article are traced main lines of discussions about the truth and principal senses of Indian terms (satya, jсāna, Dharma, prāmāхya). <...> Buddhists were the firsts who introduced the concept of truth, originally in a form of the Four noble truths doctrine then as Mahayana concept of the two truths (conventional and absolute). <...> In Indian tradition, as well as in Western philosophy, truth was considered differently in existential, moral, ontological, soteriological, epistemological and logical perspectives. <...> Indians also distinguished between inferential and semantic concepts of truth. <...> From Western point of view their aspiration to build a theory of the World, which will explain the existence of its different natural and supernatural levels, which are cognizable by rational and super-rational means, brought Indians to paradoxical, contradictory results. <...> Typical example of such contradictory theory of truth can be found in Jaina relative truth doctrine about impermanent and pluralistic reality (syādvāda or anekāntavāda). <...> Key words: cognitive practice, epistemological truth, Indian epistemology, logical truth, requirements for truth, satya, stratification of being, truth in Indian philosophy. <...> In the History of Western Philosophy truth as well as other cultural values appeared in different images. <...> C. 323] (in modern epistemology), like meanings of propositions (in Logic), the logical ontology (in ‘semantic conception of truth’ of A. Tarski) or even superfluous property of the propositions (in deflationary conception of truth by A. Ayer). <...> Truth in India was also very significant category, but along of original character of Indian thought the word ‘truth’ had its own way for transforming to the philosophical category. <...> But it is necessary to identify the meaning of the Indian philosophers’ discussions as the discussions about truth, because this meaning provides understand24 Kanaeva N.A. Image of truth <...>