Nyāya Sūtras 12
Nyāyabhāṣya 12
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12.2
tasya bhogādhiṣṭhānam ---
Its site of experience [is]:
12.3
ceṣṭendriyārthāśrayaḥ śarīram ||
NyS 1.1.11: The body is the locus of bodily action, sense organs, and objects.
12.4
kathaṃ ceṣṭāśrayaḥ? īpsitaṃ jihāsitaṃ vārtham adhikṛtyepsājihāsāprayuktasya tadupāyānuṣṭhānalakṣaṇā samīhā ceṣṭā, sā yatra varttate tac charīram/
How is it the locus of bodily action? Bodily action is striving, characterized by the execution of means to that end, undertaken by one impelled by desire to acquire or desire to avoid, concerning an object that is desired or disliked; that in which it resides is the body.
12.5
katham indriyāśrayaḥ? yasyānugraheṇānugṛhītāni upaghāte copahatāni svaviṣayeṣu sādhvasādhuṣu vartante sa eṣām āśrayaḥ tac charīram/ katham arthāśrayaḥ/
How is it the locus of the sense organs? That by whose benefit they are benefited and by whose injury they are injured, operating properly or improperly toward their respective objects—that is their locus, that is the body. How is it the locus of objects?
12.6
yasminn āyatane indriyārthasannikarṣād utpannayoḥ sukhaduḥkhayoḥ pratisaṃvedanaṃ pravartate sa eṣām āśrayaḥ,
The locus in which the experience of pleasure and pain arising from the contact of sense organs with objects occurs—that is the locus of these [objects],
12.7
tac charīram iti//11//
that is the body.
Translations (1)
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Commentaries (2)
- Nyāyavārtikatātparyaṭīkā — Vācaspati Miśra, Sanskrit
- Nyāyavārttika — Uddyotakara, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Nyāyasūtra — Akṣapāda Gautama, Sanskrit