Nyayavatara and Nayakarnika

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

Page 344

Text and Translation
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a jar; ghața a jar; ādi etc., ekārthavācakāḥ signifying the same sense).
The sabda-naya treats synonymous words as all having the same sense, for instance, kumbha, kalasa, ghața, etc., are all expressive of one and the same object (viz., a jar). 14.
EXPLANATION:—The meaning is that the sabdanaya does not concern itself about the difference of synonymous words, but simply deals with them as if they were pure equivalents of one another.
THE CHARACTERISTICS AND INSTANCES OF SUBTLE (SAMA
BHIRŪDHA) STANDPOINT:
ब्रूते समभिरूढोऽथ भिन्नपर्यायभेदतः । भिन्नार्थाः कुम्भकलशघटा घटपटादिवत् ॥ १५ ॥ brüte samabhirūdho'rtham bhinna-paryāya-bhedataḥ ,
bhinnārthāḥ kumbha-kalasa-ghatā ghața-pațādi-vat 11 15
[ brūte speaks of; samabhirūờho the subtle standpoint; artham sense; bhinna-paryāya-bhedataḥ: by the difference in different synonyms; bhinnārthāḥ: having different senses; kumbha-kalasa-ghațāḥ: the kumbha, kalaša, and ghata—a jar, a jug and a pitcher; ghațapațādi-vat like a ghața-a jar, a pața-cloth, etc.]
The samabhirūąha-naya holds that, with the difference of the words expressing the object, the significance of the object also differs: just as a jar (ghața) and a piece of cloth (pața) are different, so a jar, a pitcher and a pot (kumbha, kalasa, and ghata, though synonyms) signify different things (according to their derivative sense: for instance, a ghața is that which makes a noise like ghas, ghas, and so on. 15.