Month: March 2018

शवोद्वर्तनन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote an impossibility, as turning round from one side to the other on the part of a dead body is quite impossible.

शतपत्रपत्रशतभेदन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote an easy and short process of doing a thing, just as hundreds of petals of a lotus being taken together, may be easily strung together at once by means of a needle, whereas to...

शक्तिसहकरिनति न्यायःThis maxim is used to denote that the attributes of an object are inseparably connected with the object itself, where there is one the other must be there too.

अविवाहन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote an impossible and ludicrous attempt; as, acccording to the scriptures of the Hindus a woman can marry only once. The taking of a second husband is quite opposed to the Shastric...

व्रीहिबीजन्यायःThis maxim denotes that so long as a single seed of a thing is left, there is every chance of its propagation; just as from one single seed of paddy, all the granaries in the land may be expected to be filled in...