Year: 2018

सर्वविशेषणंशवधारणमिति न्यायःThis maxim means that all adjectives express the qualities of the nouns they modify. It is used to denote that nature and character of a great person may be understood from those of his attendants and...

समुद्रवृष्टिन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote supply of a thing to one who is in the least need of it just as rain is quite unnecessary in the sea where there is no want of water. C.f.The English proverb n “To carry coal...

सन्दिग्धप्रयोजनञ्चविचारमर्हतति न्यायःThis maxim denotes that a necessity, if suspected to be of doubtful utility or importance, should not be done at once, without considering it very carefully and minutely in all its...

सच्छिद्रघटंवुन्यायःA water-vessel, even if filled to the brim, becomes soon emptied of all water, if ther be holes in it. So the maxim is used to denote utter fruitlesness of efforts on the part of an instructor to help a pupil...

षड्दर्शनन्यायःIt is used to mean that the atheistic schools of philosophy being six, the teistic or the Vaidic philosophies are also regarded as being divided into six schools, while in fact the philosophies are of seven schools...