Kalatita, also known as kalatyapadistha, or badhita, is the mistimed reason, a technical term denoting a kind of fallacy in an inference. Anumana (inference) is a distinct source of knowledge. It gives us knowledge about things which are not directly perceived but can be ascertained on the basis of reason. To be a valid source of knowledge, it is necessary that hetu (reason) in an inference must satisfy certain conditions. The conditions can be better understood with the help of an example, “The mountain has fire, because it has moke”. Hetu, smoke, in this case, must be (1) present in the subject, the mountain; (2) be present in all other places similar to the subject (be concomitant), as for example the kitchen hearth (3) it should not be present in any other object where the object to be proved (sadhya), the fire, is not present, as for example the lake; (4) the inferred object, the fire, should not be invalidated by direct perception or a verbal authority; and (5) hetu should not