Nyayavatara

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Sanskrit Book Depot P Ltd

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vigour for our future activities, to deepen our trenchant ideas and reveted thoughts in human beings, to enlighten our future generations for the betterment of our life, and to heighten our ultimate supreme love in mankind. And in this way, we shall be able to slacken completely our narrow-mindedness at the altar of our pride and prejudices, to loosen our beastly acrimony and mental malady for the sake of humanity, and to liken all human beings as belonging to one chum though separated by their natural qualities and environments.
After having described briefly the doctrines of Jainism let me now pass on to the study of the Nyāyāvatāra
Nine categories of Jaina Philosophy can only be comprehended by
pratyakşa
vyavahārika
↓
pramāņa
sādharmya
svärthānumāna
sädharmya drṣtäntäbhāsa
päramärthika (kevala)
[anumāṇa, sadhya, hetu[linga]
parokṣa
pararthānumāna
1. pakṣa 2. sadhya 3. hetu
4. drṣṭānta
and
vaidharmya
5, upanaya 6. nigamana [terms of a Syllogism]
1. pakṣābhāsa 2. hetvābhāsa
vaidharmya drṣtäntäbhāsa
-3. drṣtäntäbhāsa 4. düşaṇābhāsa
Naya
[naigama, samgraha. vyavahāra, rju-sutra, Sabda, samabhiraḍha, & evambhūta]
Fallacies of pararthänumāna
Laukika Sabda Sastriya Sabda
bahir vyapti
↓
pakṣa hetu sadhya drṣtanta hetu sädhya
The above chart is explained below.
antar vyāpti
asiddha
+ Sabda
Effects of pramāṇa (Mokşa)
vyapti
viruddha
anaikantika