Nyayasutra 382
Nyāyabhāṣya 382
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- Sanskrit
382.3
na svabhāvasiddhir āpekṣikatvāt ||
NyS 4.1.39: There is no establishment of intrinsic nature, because of relativity.
382.4
apekṣākṛtam āpekṣikam/ hrasvāpekṣākṛtaṃ dīrghaṃ dīrghāpekṣākṛtaṃ hrasvam, na svenātmanāvasthitaṃ kiñcit/ kasmāt? apekṣāsāmarthyāt/ tasmān na svabhāvasiddhir bhāvānām iti//39//
‘Relative’ means produced by relation [to another]. The long is produced by relation to the short; the short is produced by relation to the long; nothing is fixed in its own self. Why? Because of the efficacy of relation. Therefore, there is no establishment of the intrinsic nature of existent things. ||39
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- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Commentaries (1)
- Nyāyavārttikatātparyaṭīkā — Vācaspati Miśra, Sanskrit
Linked texts (2)
- Nyāyasūtra — Akṣapāda Gautama, Sanskrit
- Nyayavarttika (ed. Vindhyesvari Prasada Dvivedin, Lakshmana Sastri Dravida) — Sanskrit