Anyalakshanopapatti, Anyalakṣaṇopapatti: 1 definition

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The Sanskrit term Anyalakṣaṇopapatti can be transliterated into English as Anyalaksanopapatti or Anyalakshanopapatti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anyalakṣaṇopapatti (अन्यलक्षणोपपत्ति):—[tatpurusha compound] f.

(-ttiḥ) The taking place (of something) in consequence of the symptom i. e. the existence (of something else) being found somewhere else; in a Nyāya Sūtra, where the possibility of non-existence is argued from the circumstance that the existence of the counter-entity might be elsewhere: asatyarthe nābhāva iti cennānyalakṣaṇopapatteḥ ‘if (you say that there is) no non-existence since the thing is not, it is not so, for (non-existence) might be, since (the counter-entity) might exist elsewhere’. E. anya (in the sense of a locative) -lakṣaṇa (of an instrum.) and upapatti.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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