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The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

An English translation of one of the five great Tamil classics, a story of Buddhist virtues, magical powers and philosophy; along with a detailed study of the text.

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282 - Buddhist Logic<br />

While this may be regarded as valid in so far as it applies to the pot,<br />

etc., which are homogeneous as being products of effort, sound is<br />

eternal because it is audible as is the character of sound, is also<br />

equally valid. Since the validity is equally good for both the thesis and<br />

its contradictory, it ceases to be Aikāntika (peculiar).<br />

Viruddha is of four kinds, namely:–<br />

(1) Dharmasvarūpaviparītasādhanam: where in the statement of the<br />

Pakṣa or Dharmin, the major term is contradictory to the Sādhana or<br />

the middle term; [214]<br />

(2) Dharmaviśēṣaviparītasādhanam: where the Dharmaviśēṣa or the<br />

attribute or the predicate implied in the major term is contradictory<br />

to the middle term, Sādhana;<br />

(3) Dharmasvarūpaviparītasādhanam: where the form of the minor<br />

term is contradictory to the Sādhana or the middle term; and<br />

(4) Dharmaviśēṣaviparitasādhanam: when the predicate implied in<br />

the minor term is contradictory to the Sādhanam or the middle term.<br />

Of these the first is found when in the hētu, the middle term, the<br />

major term is faulty, as in the example:<br />

Sound is eternal<br />

Because it is a product.<br />

In this the character of being a product implies that sound is<br />

non-eternal. <strong>The</strong>refore the hētu or reason of being a product<br />

establishes the non-eternality which is contradictory to the eternality<br />

stated in the middle term. Hence the contradiction between the two.

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