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I. 6 ) CHAPTER I
. [ 9 नाम ठवणा दविए ति एस व्वट्ठियस्स निक्खेवो। भावो उ पज्जवट्टिअस्स परूवणा एस परमत्था ॥ ६॥
Name (Nāma), picture (Sthāpanā) and potentiality (Dravya) are the varieties of Niksepa which are applicable to Dravyāstika while Bhāva includes under it Paryāyāstika.
Here all the possible varieties of Niksepa are mentioned first and then their relation to the two principal Nayas-Dravyāstika and Paryāyāstika is brought out clearly. The four divisions or rather varieties of Nikşepa which are the least found elsewhere are mentioned here. When we try to determine the meaning of a word we look at the word from four different points of view. These points of view are the four divisions of this Nikṣepa method, e. g. if a person has got the name of Rājā he is called Nāma Rājā.
(technically called Sthapanā) of a thing called Jiva nor is it a thing which had once life in it nor which, in future is likely to have life--but an entity having actually life element in it at the present moment that is to put it technically it is a Bhāva Jiva and this is the only proper meaning, looking to the context. Thus whenever ambiguity arises, a person who is an advocate of this method of analysis called Niksepa comes forward and points out the real or the proper meaning of that particular word or sentence and entirely removes the ambiguity. Thus the method is very useful in determining the meaning of words or sentences. It is true that Indian Rhetorics has shown various ways in determining a definite sense of a word intended by the speaker when that word yields various senses. But nowhere except in Jain works called Niryukti do we find this clear and practical method of determining the sense of a word or a sentence- the method called Niksepa, In Vedic and Budhistic works this analytical method is conspicuous by its absence
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