Comparative Study of Indian Science

Author(s): Harisatya Bhattacharya
Publisher: C S Mallinath

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detaches the aspect of generality for special consideration. As the Samanya or gonerality may be either Para or Supreme or Apara or lesser,--the Samgraha is either Para-Samgraha . or Apara-Samgraha. "The · Para-Samgraha," says Vadi-deva, “consists in nege lecting the innumerable particulars and attending exclusively to the Pure Essence, equivalent to abstract Existence." The Apara-Samgraha, again, consists in attending to the lesser generalities eg., Substantiality etc., and neglecting their modes. ...
3. The Vyavahara Naya is the exact opposite of the Samgraha. "The Vyavahara Naya," as Vinaya Vijaya says, "takes into consideration an object as possessing specific properties only." The logical process of Division is really dependent on this Vyavahara Naya. It supplies the principle of individuation, the fundamentum divisionis, as it is called in European logic and finds out varieties in what is represented as a ' homogeneity by the Samgraha. The following state: ments of Vadi-deva will prove what we say. “The Vyavahara is the process which specifies in a regular order, the objects, rovealed by the Samgraha. As for example.. What is Existent is oither a Substance or a Mode."