Nyaya Science of Thought

SR No.: 006711
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1916
Total Pages: 68
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

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THE SCIENCE OF THOUGHT.
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(xix) The right-hand pan of this pair of scales is not
touching the beam, because the other one is
on the same level with it. (xx) This animal is suffering from some disease, be
cause it does not look healthy. (xxi) This woman is feeling unhappy, because she has
been forcibly separated from her lover. (xxii) All things are anekântic (possessed of different
aspects), because they do not enjoy absolutely one aspect alone.
CHAPTER XXIV. Many-sidedness" is an important characteristic of pramåņa (valid knowledge) because things in nature wear that aspect.
The immediate fruit or effect of pramana is the
* Obviously knowledge must correspond to nature to be valid, so that it should know things as they actually exist, The form in which things exist is dravya-paryaya-rupa (dravya= substance, paryâya=condition or form, and rupa=aspect) from one point of view, nitya-anitya (nitya=eternal and anitya= transient) from a second, and sâmánya-visheşa (sâmánya= general and visheşa=particular) from a third, and so on. A gold ring, for instance, is neither a substance (gold) nor a form or condition ('ringness') alone; it is gold in the form of a ring. This is what is meant by the dravya-paryâya-rupa, for no sabstance can possibly exist without a form. Similarly, every thing is nitya-anitya, for while incessant changes of form follow one another, on the one hand, no change whatsoever takes place in the material basis of those changes themselves, on the other. The same is the case with the sámánya-visheşa nature of things, each of which belongs to a class and is yet distinct from all other members of its species. It thus exhibits