Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

Author(s): Siddhasena Divakar, Vinayvijay, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Vikas Mandal

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Naya-karņikā
streams flowing into it, by transcribing, in brief the various view-points culled from it (the ocean-like gospel). 1.
[This verse is in anuştubh metre, and the following 20 verses are also in the same meire, while the last two are in vasantatilakā metre ].
NAMES OF STANDPOINTS:
नैगमः संग्रहश्चैव व्यवहारर्जुसूत्रको । शब्दः समभिरूद्वैवंभूतौ चेति नयाः स्मृताः ॥ २ ॥ naigamaḥ samgrahaś caiva vyavahārarjjusūtrakau 1
sabdaḥ samabhirūąhaivambhūtau ceti nayāḥ smrtāḥ 11 2
[naigamaḥ the non-distinguished (standpoint); samgrahaḥ the collective-generic, caiva and also, vyavahāra the practical, rjusūtrakau and the straight-expression, sabdaḥ the verbal, samabhirūąhaivambhūtau the subtle and the such-like, ceti and that nayāḥ aspects, smrtāḥ are spoken of).
The standpoints are the non-distinguished (naigama), the collective-generic (samgraha), the practical (vyavahāra), the straight-expression (rjusūtra), the verbal (slabda), the subtle (samabhirūdha) and the such-like (evambhūta). 2. GENERAL AND SPECIFIC PROPERTIES OF THINGS:
अर्थाः सर्वेऽपि सामान्यविशेषा उभयात्मकाः । सामान्यं तत्र जात्यादि विशेषाश्च विभेदकाः ॥ ३ ॥ arthāḥ sarve’pi sāmānya-višeşā ubhayātmakāḥ |
sāmānyam tatra jātyādi viśeşāś ca vibhedakāḥ 11 3
[arthāḥ objects; sarve all; api also; sāmānyaviseşā having general and particular properties; ubhayātmakāḥ