Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

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

Page 340

Text and Translation
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INSTANCES OF THE PRACTICAL STANDPOINT:
वनस्पतिं गृहाणेति प्रोक्ते गृह्णाति कोऽपि किम् । विना विशेषान्नाम्रादीस्तन्निरर्थकमेव तत् ॥ ९ ॥ vanaspatim gļhāņeti prokte gļhņāțī koʻpi kim i vinā višesān nāmrādīms tan nirarthakam eva tat 11 9
[ vanaspatim vegetable; grhāņa take, bring; iti that; prokte on being asked, -told; grhņāti brings; kopi anyone; kim what; vinā without; viseşān specified; āmrādīn a mango tree, etc.; tat: therefore; nirarthakam vain, purposeless; eva simply; tat that (general quality)]:
If one is asked to bring 'vegetable’ can one do so? Without the specification of particularity, e.g., mango, etc., such speech is vain. 9.
EXPLANATION:—This is to illustrate the principle that general qualities have no existence of their own. If they did, we should have manhood, stupidity, wisdom etc., existing apart from living beings—which is absurd. ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION:
वणपिण्डीपादलेपादिके लोकप्रयोजने । उपयोगो विशेषैः स्यात्सामान्ये न हि कर्हिचित् ॥ १० ॥ vraņapiņdi-pāda-lepādike laka-prayojane i
upayogo višeşaiḥ syāt sāmānye na hi karhicit 11 10
[ vraņa a wound, sore, bruise or hurt; piņdīpādalepa a kind of unguent; ādike and in other such things; lokaprayojane in the interests of the people; upayogo any act contributing to the fulfilment of a desired object, usefulness; viseșaiḥ: by means of the specific properties; syāt would be (accomplished); sāmānye in the general property; nahi by no means, not at all; karhicit at any time ).