History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.1032

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The two words '*sva*' and '*svāmin*' are correlative, the idea underlying both is the same and they are two aspects of the same question. '*Sva*' means 'what belongs to a person' i. e. 'property'. It has direct reference to a thing and indirect reference to the owner of the thing. '*Svāmin*' means 'master or owner' and directly refers to the person owning and indirectly to the thing. Vide Salmond's Jurisprudence, chap. XII. pp. 339-340 (9th ed. of 1937) for the idea of ownership. According to Śiromaṇibhaṭṭācārya *svatva* is a separate *padārtha* (category) by itself, while others say that it is a capacity.¹⁰²²