Category: Nyayavali

हस्तियूथपतिन्यायःThe maxim is used to denote that a popular leader must have courage, strenght and discretion enough to guide, help, and protect his followers, just as a leader of the herd of...

हस्तामलकन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote the facility of studying a thing most familiarly over which one has full control just as an amalak fruit on the palm of the hand maty be easily and fully known in all its various...

स्वपक्षहानिकर्तृत्वत्?वक्र्लङ्गरतङ्गतैति न्यायःThis maxim is used to denote that he who fouls his own nest is a disgrace of the family he belongs...

स्वामीभृत्यन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote the unchangeableness of the relation subsisting between the two persons and the necessity of the discharge of duties attached to the positions of those persons respectively, just as...

स्वप्नव्याघ्रन्यायःThis maxim is used to indicate the unsubstantial and worthless nature of an imaginary dread just as the fear of the tiger dreamt in sleep is quite worthless.

स्वप्नमन्त्रलाभन्यायःThis maxim takes its origin from the fact that a mantra in order that it may secure success to a worshipper must be obtained not in a dream but from a guru or a preceptor, who has himself attained success,...

स्फटिकलौहित्यन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote the property of a purely transparent object to reflect the colour of a thing presented before it, just as a crystal which is naturally white, looks red, when a red flower called...

स्थूलारुन्धतीन्यायःThis maxim takes its origin from the custom of showing the star Arundhati to the bride and the bridegroom at the close of the marriage ceremony. At that time attention of both is first drawn to the moon, and...

स्थावरजङ्गमविषन्यायःPoison, obtained whether from any thing or any animal, may in all cases prove fatal. Similarly an evil, be it done by a friend or a foe, always produces an injurious...

स्थलपुलकन्यायःIn a cooking pot all the grains being equally moistened by the hot water, when one grain is found to be well cooked, the same may be inferred with regard to other grains. So the maxim is used when the condition of...

सूर्योदयास्तन्यायःThe maxim takes its origin from the erroneous notion regarding the motion of the sun who has, broadly speaking, no motion, but still erroneously beleived by people to be rising in the east and setting down in...

सुत्रशाटिकान्यायःThe maxim takes its origin from the word “cloth” being used even when it is not in existence, the threads only being put in order for the purpose of making it, and denotes that a thing is freely...

सूचिकटाहन्यायःIt is used to denote that when two things one easy and the other difficult are required to be done, the easier should be first attended to, as when a smith is required to make a needle and a kettle, he should first...

सुभगभिक्षुकन्यायःIf a poor man can marry a wife who is a favourite of Fortune, he is also sure to enjoy fortune’s smile in course of time. The maxim therefore denotes that a woman plays an important part in the fortune of...

सर्वजननतुल्ययव्ययन्यायःIt denotes that one, whose expenditure equals his income, can make no savings in his life.

सिंहावलोकनन्यायःA lion is very grave by nature, casts his glance towards the front, and does not see sideways through fickleness.

सिंहमेषन्यायःThe maxim has its origin in the fact that a young lion once strayed into a village and mixed with a flock of lambs. It lived ther for some days, and then when it was able to make sound peculiar to its own race or...

साधुमैत्रीन्यायःThis maxim is used to denote that friendship with persons that are good and honest is permanent in nature and grows in strenght and intensity with the increase of years.

साक्षात्प्रकृतविति न्यायःAs an earthen vessel is finally reduced to earth of which it is made, so everything in the universe will at last be dissolved into the Great First cause from which they...

सम्प्रदायकलहन्यायःDifferent systems of religious teaching quarell among themselves as regards the details of their doctrine, but in reality they all inculcate the worship of the One Being. So this maxim is used to denote the...