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1912
Naya Karnika
265
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRACTICAL -VYAVAHARA
STANDPOINT. विशेषात्मकमेवार्थ व्यवहारश्च मन्यते ।।
विशेषभिन्न सामान्यमसत् खरविषाणवत् ॥ ८॥ The practical (vyavahara) takes into consideration an object as possessing the specific properties only (as, or this view of vyavahara naya is also right because,) the general property as separate from the specific property is a nonentity as donkey's horns. 8. INSTANCES OF THE PRACTICAL STANDPOINT.
वनस्पतिं गृहाणेति प्रोक्ते गृहणाति कोऽपि किम् ।
विना विशेषान्नाम्रादीस्तनिरर्थकमेव तत् ॥ ९ ॥ . (You want the special vegetable of the mango-fruit. You ask your man in general terms, 'bring me a vegetable;' You do not specialize the mango-vegetable. What will your miau bring? He may bring any vegetable other than the mange, which is of no use to you. Similarly the practical view of things (Vyavahara naya) has regard to specific properties of things only, irrespective of their general ones. General conceptions have no utility in practice.) If you ask a man to take a tree, what will be take but some specific tree as mango-tree etc; hence the same (general property) is of no use. 9.
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION व्रणपिण्डीपादलेपादिके लोकप्रयोजने ।
उपयोगो बिशेषैः स्यात्सामान्ये न हि कहिचित् ॥ १० ॥ When people apply poultice to a wound and ointment to feet, the use of specific properties is made, and never of the general properties. 10
EXPLANATION-A wound or a bruise or a mere scratch on the foot or leg or ankle or any other part of the body, would require ointment for their healing, but the wound will require its special ointment, and so the bruise and the scratch. As genus,
