Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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cloth is called to mind then the resultant view is sarvaparikṣepinaigama, i.e. naigama encompassing the whole.
TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
(2) The view which on the basis of some one generic feature whatsoever subsumes under one form the things of various types or the numerous particular units of them is sangraha naya. (3) The view which with some practical purpose in view distinguishes from one another the things subsumed under one form on the basis of some one generic feature is vyavahāra-naya. All these three nayas have their origin in the grounds of the dravyārthika and so they are all understood to be of the nature of the dravyārthika.
Question Before proceeding on to interpret the remaining nayas please explain well with the help of illustrations these three nayas themselves.
Naigama Naya
Answer Depending on the variety of types of place, time and the nature of peoples the popular conventions as also the impressions left behind by them are of numerous types. Hence the naigama naya originating from them too is of numerous typeswhich is why its illustrations of various types are to be met with. And new illustrations of the same sort can well be construed.
A person going there with a view to undertaking some job is asked by someone 'where are you going?' And the former replies I am going to fetch an axe or a pen.'
Here the person replying is in fact going to fetch either wood for preparing an axe-handle or reed to prepare a pen and yet he formulates his reply as above and the person enquiring too immediately catches his meaning. This is just a form of popular convention.
When a person who having given up caste rules has become a monk is introduced in terms of the Brahmin caste to which he belonged in his earlier life-stage, then too the statement concerned 'Here is a Brahmin monk' is understood immediately.