Year: 2018

Nyaya – The braying of an ass.

रासभरतितन्यायःThis maxim takes its origin from the fact that an ass brays at first very loudly, but gradually its sound sinks lower and lower, and is used to denote that anything that makes much noise in the beginning proves, in...

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Nyaya – A prince and a fowler.

राजपुत्रव्याधन्यायःIt takes its origin from a story that once upon a time an infant prince was left in a jungle by its stepmother. The child was accidentally found by a fowler who took it home and brought it up as his own son....

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Nyaya – The sunlight and the grass.

रश्मितृणादिन्यायःIt is used to denote that a thing which is found to be of essential importance at one time, may at another time prove to be the cause of distinction, just as the sunlight, which is indispensably necessary for...

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