Month: March 2018

Nyaya – The genus and the species.

व्यापकव्यावृत्या व्याप्यव्यावृत्तिरिति न्यायःIt is used to denote that exlusion or inclusion of the genus means the exlusion or inclusion of the species as...

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Nyaya – The tigress’s milk.

व्याघ्रक्षीरन्यायःIt is used to denote the extreme difficulty of attainment of a thing, though it may be useful, like the milk of a tigress which, if preserved in a golden cup or vessel, becomes very efficacious, though it is...

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Nyaya – The worms bred in poison.

विषक्ऱ्%इमिन्यायःIt is used to denote a state of things which, though fatal to others, is not so to those who being bred in it, are inured or naturalized to it, like poison which, though fatal to others is not so to the worms...

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