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GENERAL SURVEY
(1) pramana (a right knowledge or means of know
ledge), (2) prameya (object of pramanı), (3) doubt, (4) purpose, (5) illustration, (6) siddhantır (final couclusion or truth), (7) premises, (8) confutation,
(9) ascertainment, (10) discussion, (1) wrangling, (12) cavil (13) fallacy, (14) quibble, (15) futility, and (16) occasiou for rebuke.
The soul, body, senses, objects of sense, intellect, mind, activity, fault, transmigration, fruit, pain and release are the objects of right knowledge, Pain, birth, activity, faults and misapprehension are the things to be destroyed. On their successive annihilation, in the reverse order, follows release. There is no reference to a creator in the Nyaya Sutras of Gautama on which the system is founded, except once incidentally in meet. ing a Buddhist argument.
The Vaiseshika system maintains that supreme good, that is to say cessation of pain, results from the
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