Apohasiddhi, Apoha-siddhi: 1 definition
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Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra SuriApohasiddhi (अपोहसिद्धि) is the name of a 10th century work written by Ratnakīrti, as occurring in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 333, ll. 5-7 & p. 334, ll. 3-8]—Ratnakīrti who flourished in the tenth century A, D., who is an author of Kṣaṇabhaṅgasiddhi, Sthirasiddhidūṣaṇa and Citrādvaitasiddhi and who is “very bitter against Dharmottara” has composed a work entitled Apohasiddhi. This is the first of the Six Buddhist Nyāya Tracts in Sanskrit edited by Haraprasad Shastri and published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1910 A.D.
Apohasiddhi deals with the imports of words. The theory it propounds is that a word denotes something positive and at the same time differentiates it from all others. The two acts, one positive and the other negative, are simultaneous. It is not a a positive action followed by negation, nor is it a negative act followed by assertion. In establishing this, the author refutes successively the theories of (1) Kumārila, (2) Trilocana, (3) Nyāyabhuṣaṇa [Nyāyabhūṣaṇa?], (4) Vācaspati Miśra and (5) Dharmottara.
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Partial matches: Apoha, Siddhi.
Full-text: Ratnakirti, SBNT.
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The Buddhist Philosophy of Universal Flux (by Satkari Mookerjee)
Chapter VII - The Doctrine of Apoha or the Import of Words < [Part I - Metaphysics]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 4 - Teachers and Pupils in Vedānta < [Chapter XI - The Śaṅkara School of Vedānta (continued)]
Reverberations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy (by Birgit Kellner)