Canonical Niksepa

Author(s): Bansidhar Bhatt
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan

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ANALYSIS
coexist only as long as the determinants are not employed, and ramification below the level of the determinants is rare. The two following examples demonstrate the contrast:
$28 (davva-loga) $1 (davvao)
davva-SOE: udaeņam ya inaţtiye ya davvao: ege LOE (and not asamkhejjão etc.)
The only exception to the above davva-loga definition is the (ontological) niksepa 827 which has the logical structure of davvao.
It might be suggested that davva-loga is similar to the post-canonical niksepa which shows the peculiar process of "nikṣepization" (deriving various concepts from the catchword). However, niksepization produces concepts which are more or less independent from the catch-word (considering its normal meaning), whereas the concepts derived from the davva-loga catch-words are generally subdivisions of the latter. The only clear example of niksepization is $26.
From the point of view of syntax, the true sentences in 9821-24 and at the end of $28 are worthy of note. There are border-line cases (standing midway between true sentences and pseudo-sentences) as well.
It is no doubt correct to say that davva-loga is more "concrete" than davvao (davvao being mainly concerned with ontology and epistemology), but even in davva-loga the abstract element is not missing altogether (821-24 and 27).
The concluding portion as found in a number of specimens is not uniform in character. In 9921-24, 26 (se ken atthenam ... se ten atthenam...) and $29 (se kim tam ... se ttam ...), the concluding sentence is a sort of colophon; in $28, the sentence is explanatory; in 9821-25 the nikṣepas are concluded with (or supplemented by) evam extensions.
$29-30 (taken from Aupapātika) recur in the Bhagavati (Nos.49-50). $33 (taken from the Kalpasūtra) recurs in both, Aupapātika (No.52) and Jambūdvīpaprajñapti (No.59).
If we ignore "S20A and 20B, we can say that the davva-loga nikṣepas in the Bhagavati are confined to Śatakas 13-25, while all davvao nikṣepas occur in Satakas 2-8 (sūtras 2.1.90; 2.10.117; 8.2.321). 9820A (davva-loga) and 20B (davvao) belong to sūtra 11.10. 419 (i.e. þataka 11). Again the majority of the davva-loga nikṣepas belongs to the Bhagavati, while all davvao nikṣepas (except two) belong to either Bhagavati or Nandi.
The 'nikṣepas without execution'listed as davva-loga mainly belong to the Sthānānga (Nos. 1-8 and 14-16). There are two such niksepas from the Bhagavatī (Nos. 46-47) and one each from Aupapātika (No.54), Prajñāpanā (No. 56), and Kalpasūtra (No. 74). See pp. 156