Nayakarnika

Author(s): Vinayvijay, Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

Page 15

INTRODUCTION.
evolved out in the course of transmigration or evolution.
The Dravyárthika Naya is further sub-divided into three classes, Naigama, Samgraha, and Vyavahára. The Paryáyárthika is also sub-divided into Rijusutra, S'abda, Samabhiridha, and Evambhůta. According to some áchiryas (philosophers), the Rijusutra is to be treated as a sub-division of the Dravyárthika Naya, but this is only a matter of classification and has no bearing on the general aspect. of the subject.
It is not to be supposed that there are only seven Nayas or standpoints of view: there are many subdivisions, and, according to the author of the original text, their number is seven hundred. But as the *principal ones are the seven described here, it would serve no useful purpose to enumerate the others.
We may now proceed to consider these seven principal Nayas separately.
(1) Naigama, from na, not, eko, one, and gama, certainly, hence the non-distinguished, is a point of view which does not distinguish between the general'
1 The word Vyavahara occurs twice in this classification, firstly, as one of the two main divisions of philosophical standpoint, and, secondly, as a sub-division of the Dravyarthika Naya. lo the first case it means thepractical siandpoint, and in the second the particular as defined later on.