Nyaya Science of Thought

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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NYAYA.
(vi) This mango has a sweet taste, because it is ripe
yellow in colour.*
(vii) There is no cold here, because its antithesis, that
is) fire is present here. (viii) There is no feeling of cold here, because there is
smoke here (which is the effect of the antithesis
of cold) (ix) This man is not happy, because he has present in
him the causes of misery (the antithesis of hap
piness). (x) To-morrow will not be a Sunday, because it is Fri
day to-day. (xi) Yesterday was not a Friday, because it is Tuesday
to-day. (xii) This wall is not devoid of an outside, because it
has an inside (the sahachara of the outerside). (xiii) There is no jar in this room, because its svubhava
(identity) is not to be found (that is nothing
resembling its identity is present) in it. (xiv) There is no oak in this village, because there is
no tree here. (xv) There are no (sâmarthya=potent) rain-clouds here,
because it is not raining here. (xvi) There is no smoke in this place, because there is
no fire in it. (xvii) It will not be Sunday to-morrow, because it is not
Saturday to-day. (xviii) It was not Monday yesterday, because to-day is
not Tuesday.
* This illustration proceeds on the principle of concomitance or co-existence of colour and taste, so that the presence of the one is an index to the existence of the other.
Another instance of the principle of co-existence.