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PREFACE
THE Naya-Vada, or philosophy of standpoints, is a unique feature of Jaina metaphysics, and has been fully dealt with by some of the great ácháryas of the past. The text of the present work—the Naya Karņiká—is by Sri Vinaya Vijaya Upadhyáya, a famous Logician of the 17th century A. D., and has been selected for translation on account of its general freedom from tiresome technicalities as well as for its brevity.
The Naya-Váda, it is to be observed, is an essential department of knowledge by itself, and bears the same relation to philosophy as logic does to thought, or grammar to language, or speech. I have ventured on a general outline of the subject in the introduction for the benefit of the non-Jaina readers, though the observations of one so little acquainted, like myself, with the basic principles of the rules of Thought, laid down by the Giant-Philosophers of the NayaVâda, are hardly likely to throw much light on the subject.
I avail myself of the present opportunity to acknowledge my indebtedness to the authors of the
