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NAYA-KARNIKA.
Aikyabuddhirghatasate bhavet Sâmânyadhar
mataḥ,
Vesisâchcha nijam nijam lakṣayanti ghatam jauâḥ.-4.
[ ऐक्यबुद्धि: recognising oneness ; घटशते in each of a hun - dred jars; (there) would be; : by means of general properties; fa by means of specific or particular properties; and; faci fi one's own, as the case may be; fa distinguish; घट a jar; people]. By means of general properties in each of a hundred (hundred here means 'all') jars, onę idea (that of jar-ness) is recognised, and by means of specific properties, people distinguish each individual-particular jar as their own.-4.
Explanation.-Suppose there are lying here many jars; if we look at them from the standpoint of their general properties, we know only their jar-ness which is common to all of them: but if we view them from the aspect of their differentiating properties, we notice their differences, since they are not all alike, some being large, some small, some of red colour, some of black, some belonging to A, some to B, and so on.
The Characteristics of the Non-distinguished (Naigama) Standpoint (naya).
नैगमो मन्यते वस्तु तदेतदुभयात्मकम् । निर्विशेषं न सामान्यं विशेषोऽपि न तद्विना ॥ ५ ॥
