Nyayasutra 384
Nyāyabhāṣya 384
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384.2
atheme saṅkhyaikāntavādāḥ ---
sarvam ekaṃ sadaviśeṣāt/
Now these are the doctrines of definite number:
‘All is one, because of non-distinction as existent.’
384.3
sarvaṃ dvedhā nityānityabhedāt/ sarvaṃ tredhā jñātā jñānaṃ jñeyam iti/ sarvaṃ caturddhā pramātā pramāṇaṃ prameyaṃ pramitir iti/ evaṃ yathāsambhavam anye 'pīti/ tatra parīkṣā ---
‘All is twofold, because of the division into eternal and non-eternal.’ ‘All is threefold: knower, knowledge, and known.’ ‘All is fourfold: cognizer, means of valid cognition, object of valid cognition, and valid cognition.’ Likewise others too, according to possibility. Here is the examination:
384.5
saṅkhyaikāntāsiddhiḥ kāraṇānupapattyupapattibhyām ||
NyS 4.1.41: Definite number is unestablished, both because a cause is untenable and because it is tenable.
384.6
yadi sādhyasādhanayor nānātvam, ekānto na siddhyati vyatirekāt/ atha
If there is plurality of what is to be proved and the means of proof, the definite number is not established, because of difference. But if
384.7
sādhyasādhanayor abhedaḥ? evam apy ekānto na sidhyati sādhanābhāvāt, na hi hetum antareṇa kasyacit siddhir iti//41//
there is identity of what is to be proved and the means of proof? Even so, the definite number is not established, because of the absence of a means of proof; for nothing is established without a logical reason. ||41
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- Nyāyavārttikatātparyaṭīkā — Vācaspati Miśra, Sanskrit
Linked texts (2)
- Nyāyasūtra — Akṣapāda Gautama, Sanskrit
- Nyayavarttika (ed. Vindhyesvari Prasada Dvivedin, Lakshmana Sastri Dravida) — Sanskrit