Nyayasutra 50
Nyāyabhāṣya 50
- Language
- Sanskrit
50.3
sādhyāviśiṣṭaḥ sādhyatvāt sādhyasamaḥ ||
The unproven [reason] is identical with the probandum because of requiring to be proved.
50.4
dravyaṃ chāyeti sādhyam, gatimattvād iti hetuḥ sādhyenāviśiṣṭaḥ sādhanīyatvāt sādhyasamaḥ/
‘Shadow is a substance’ is the probandum; the logical reason ‘because it possesses motion’, being undifferentiated from the probandum because it is to be proved, is identical with the probandum.
50.5
ayam apy asiddhatvāt sādhyavat prajñāpayitavyaḥ/ sādhyaṃ tāvad etat kiṃ puruṣavac chāyāpi gacchaty āhosvid āvarakadravye saṃsarpaty āvaraṇasantānād asannidhisantāno 'yaṃ tejaso gṛhyata iti/
This too, being unestablished, must be demonstrated just like the probandum. First, this is to be proved: does shadow move like a person, or rather, as an obstructing substance moves, is this continuity of absence of light apprehended due to the continuity of obstruction?
50.6
sarpatā khalu dravyeṇa yo yas tejobhāga āvriyate tasya tasyāsannidhir evāvicchinno gṛhyata iti/ āvaraṇaṃ tu prāptipratiṣedhaḥ// 8 //
Indeed, as a substance moves, whatever portion of light is covered, precisely an unbroken absence of that [light] is apprehended. But obstruction is the prevention of reach. // 8
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Commentaries (3)
- Nyāyavārtikatātparyaṭīkā — Vācaspati Miśra, Sanskrit
- Nyāyālaṃkāra — Abhayatilaka, Sanskrit
- Nyāyavārttika — Uddyotakara, Sanskrit
Linked texts (4)
- Nyāyasūtra — Akṣapāda Gautama, Sanskrit
- Nyāyamañjarī — Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Vedāntakaumudī — Rāmadvaya, Sanskrit
- Tārkikarakṣā — Varadarāja, Sanskrit