Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

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

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Naya-karņikā
tarbhāvinyo being included in the hands, &c.; hi in the same way—as for an example; na not; angulādhyā the fingers, &c.; tataḥ from them (fingers, &c.); prthak separately).
Not a single nimb, mango or any other tree is ever conceived, apart from its general property) vegetable-ness. In the same way, fingers, etc., which are included in the idea of hands, etc., cannot be conceived of separately from the hands, etc. 7.
EXPLANATION:-In this verse, the emphasis is on the fact that special qualities can have no existence withouí a substratum of general properties. No one has yet seen a mango plant which did not possess the general quality of tree-ness.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRACTICAL (VYAVAHĀRA) STANDPOINT:
विशेषात्मकमेवार्थं व्यवहारश्च मन्यते । विशेषभिन्नं सामान्यमसत्खरविषाणवत् ॥ ८ ॥ višeşātmakam evārtham vyavahāraś ca manyate 1
vīšeşa-bhinnam sāmānyam asat khara-vişāņavat 11 8
[ viseşātmakam possessing special properties; eva only; artham an object; vyavahāra the practical standpoint; ca and; manyate takes into consideration; viseșabhinnam apart from the specific quality, sāmānyam general quality; asat false; khara-vişāņavat like a donkey's horns ].
The practical (vyavahāra) takes into consideration an object as possessing specific properties only; as the specific, apart from the general, is a non-entity like a donkey's horns. 8.